Archive for November, 2005

The Illustrations of Charlene Chua

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Today, we’re heading to Singapore to meet Charlene Chua, also going under the name of “Sygnin”. Charlene’s vector-based illustrations have appeared in various local as well as international publications such as Silver Kris magazine, Asian Diver magazine, FHM Singapore and CLEO Singapore. She is also a contributor to the book Freewave (published by Booth Clibborn [...]

Denis Truchi

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

A French illustrator who lives in Paris, Denis Truchi has studied graphic-design and started working under contract before going the freelance road in 1994. In his own words, he’s now specialized in illustration, while trying to develop several styles, in order to diversify his skills and answer to the needs of a wider clientele.

While he’s [...]

The Rinzen Collective

Monday, November 28th, 2005

Diplomed of the Queensland College of Art in Australia, the members of the Rinzen (“sudden awakening”) team have furbished their weapons in corporate design and multimedia first. Later on, they launched the RMX projects, a variation on the “exquisite cadaver” in vector illustration, in which each image would remix the previous one. As they apply [...]

Rian Hughes

Monday, November 28th, 2005

Rian Hughes is, simply said, the man who started it all for me. It took place in the first weeks of my second year of studies to become a graphic-designer. Our visual communication teacher had brought a book containing some of Hughes’ illustrations, and told us to try our hand at working with a similar [...]

What Vector Art Isn’t

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

To further my attempt at avoiding any confusion, today I’ll focus on what vector-based art isn’t.

Software overlap:

In my previous post, I had mentioned the fact that some programs may overlap to a certain extent. Indeed, in the same way software like Illustrator contains a set of raster tools, raster programs like Photoshop or PaintShop Pro [...]

What Is “Vector Art”?

Saturday, November 26th, 2005

This question is one I’m regularly asked whenever I mention that my favorite and main domain of digital art revolves around the use of vectors. In fact, a more appropriate name for this way of working would probably be “vector-based art”; indeed, vector art in itself is a technique, and a style—much like oil painting [...]

Let’s Get Vectorized

Friday, November 25th, 2005

Welcome to Vectorized, where I’ll be posting about vector art in general, techniques, resources and artists (whether professional or amateur, well-known or still struggling for recognition). I got introduced to vector art myself during my studies to become a graphic-designer, a few years ago, and since then, I’ve embraced this style, and never quite looked [...]