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October 30, 2012
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Artist's Statement: I lost track of how much time I spent on this. Let's just say.....forever, lol. First, I had difficulty choosing the poster I would do. I scrapped the first three attempts. This was my 4th choice, which I chose both because I could most easily visualize a max of only 5 colors and because it had nice hard edges to allow me to set some base images right away. Halfway through the project, I eliminated my original blue choice in my swatch and replaced it with a light gray. Thus, my final decision on the five colors were yellow, black, dark gray, light gray, and an orange-brown. Then, this morning, I had the awesome experience of clicking "don't save" to the wrong window and ended up losing 2 hours worth of typography work, all to have to redo it again this evening. In the end, I'm happy with the result, and very happy to put this project behind me. :P

Guidelines: The purpose of the project was to interpret a photograph into a simplified vector design. Gradients, filters, and transparencies were not allowed. All work had to be completed in Adobe Illustrator. Only shapes, symbols, and pen tooling with solid fills were allowed. No open paths. All typography had to be consistent to the original product, expanded, and outlined. A maximum of five colors were allowed (Shades mattered; thus, light gray, gray, and dark gray would count for 3 colors. Black would count; white would not.) We were given a folder to choose from of 800px by 1150px raster images to use as our reference image.

Reference Image: [link]

Tools Used: Pen Tool, Shapes (Star, Flare, Rectangle, Elipse), Pathfinder, Symbol Sprayer, Clipping Mask, Reflect Tool, Line Tool, Text Tool

Devices
Hardware: Macbook Pro, Wacom Bamboo Capture
Software: Adobe Illustrator CS6
Time: Unknown (Completed within a two day period)
Skill Level Requirement: Intermediate
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Mood: Love !Nine978 Nov 20, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
love this
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~jaxcullengfx Nov 20, 2012  Student Digital Artist
:) Thank you, good sir.
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*WorldsEdge Oct 30, 2012  Professional Interface Designer
An interesting project that you can be proud of. "...clicking 'don't save' to the wrong window..." Been there, done that.
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~jaxcullengfx Oct 31, 2012  Student Digital Artist
Thank you! ...and yeah, I was literally in tears, lol. I put the project down for a good six hours before returning to redo all the typography. I was upset. Worked out, though, in the end. I ended up switching from Movie Poster Font to SteelfishRg Bold font for the credits text, and it was a much better match. All's well that end's well. ;)
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