Category: Art
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The very impressive Ferrari F40 vector illustration
I was perusing Hacker News the other day when I came across this blog post by a Matt Sephton. The post was about a famous (in various circles, at least) vector illustration of a Ferrari F40, original artwork by David Kimble, vector recreation by Dave Rumfelt. What a beautiful piece of technical art this is: […]
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Abstract photography
(Really, this is about abstraction in visual media in general — photography, painting, illustration, etc. — but I will focus more on photography). I’m not officially schooled or trained in art theory, but my homespun definition of abstraction is very direct: Abstraction is when the composition is more important than the subject. Me To me, […]
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Kanye West portrait (work in progress)
I started working on a portrait of Kanye West back in 2017, but I never got around to finishing it. Now, I haven’t finished it quite yet, but I did make some progress that I wanted to share: Big thanks to Serif for making a very nice Illustrator alternative in Affinity Designer. I found it […]
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Learning Adobe Illustrator by manually tracing: Jango Fett Pt. 1
Learning Adobe Illustrator has been a goal of mine for well over 15 years now, ever since I stopped working at Adobe. It has proceeded in fits and starts. I am currently working on manually tracing Jango Fett. Why Jango? For one thing, the reference photo I have is a good pose, but more importantly, […]
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Bruce Nauman On Clarity
Having to say it out loud, having to explain what you are doing, forces you to be clear. You can’t just fumble through and get something and say “That’s what I meant to do all along”. That is the part I think about in my work: making sure that what I’m doing is really clear. […]