Having taken his first pencil in hand at the age of 3 and never let it down since, Terry Wong has graduated from the Visual Communications Program at the Alberta College of Art and Design (Calgary, Canada), and later on pursued his studies in the Multimedia program of the Vancouver Film School. Now working full-time [...]
While Cendrine arnal is a photographer from the start, she also has quite a dose of skill when it comes to vector-based illustrations. I’ll invite you to check her website directly, ArgentiDigital, where the link so appropriately named Illustrations will take you to her Illustrator and Flash-made gallery. Mixing her passion for imagination and photography [...]
Refreshing and colorful, here come the dynamic illustrations of Nuno “Plati” Alves, currently featured on his blog (all that simply named… Plati’s blog). Plati is a professional Portuguese illustrator who’s worked with clients such as Elle magazine, Lisbon Fashion Week, Screenvision and the Lisbon City Hall. Pretty girls and super heroes, what could one ask [...]
Illustrator, adept of vector software, teacher at the LISAA school in Rennes (France), here comes Yann Samson, also known as “Sam”. Sam is another artist who’s started his journey through traditional employment to finally take the road of the freelancer. His works involve sketching his illustrations first, before tracing them in ink, scanning them, and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]