Monday, March 16, 2009

Ray Tribute T-Shirt Design (Vector Illustration)




This is a vector illustration I did of my great friend Ray Orias who passed away last year.

The design is for the shirt that several former bandmates of Ray will be wearing during a tribute performance this March 29, 2009, as well as other performances in the future.

These images show how I went about doing the vector illustration from the original photo. I first edited the levels of the photo to come up with three different tones of the image. From there, I created paths for each of the different tones that I felt best brought out his facial features.

I had to keep in mind that this design was for a screen print, and so, it was important I layered the colors properly and separated each of the paths to go along with the 4 colors to be printed.

This was how I went about doing this particular illustration portrait, but it can definitely be done other ways. And even though I'm sure it's obvious, I should point out that I got the theme from Shepard Fairey's Obama / Obey image.

The t-shirt will be available for sale in the near future (all proceeds will go towards the Ray Orias Memorial Fund).

Thursday, March 5, 2009

NomiS Photoshoot



Here are some of the photos from my shoot with NomiS last week.