I almost skipped the week's Illustration Friday theme of smoke. Over the weekend I had grand ambitions to challenge myself further by combining it with Sugar Frosted Goodness's current theme of orange, and set out to draw the General Lee (from The Dukes Of Hazzard), laid waste and smoking from one of the show's signature killer gulch jumps. It got too complicated for my liking and I halted it yesterday. But on the commute home – appropriately enough – I had visions in my head of a phoenix rising from the flames – only in the simple, graphic and geometric way I've done here. The illustration was done near exclusively digital; I only drew a rough pencil outline of the shapes to help guide me when I built individual vector forms in FreeHand. In Photoshop I then filled the shapes with portions of two texture photos I took; one a closup of a fire, the other of creek-bottom sand and sludge.
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Cool graphic. I almost mistook it for the Vormator's current design elements challenge!
Very nice! I really like the texture on the bird!
So elegant and gorgeous!
I think it might have been seeing and hearing about the Vormator thing lately that got me thinking about it in this way. I'll have to try it out sometime.
Cool fire! very nice!
Ouah very graphic, impressionant! Beautiful work!
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Did you do that because I flew to Phoenix on Tuesday and that inspired you?? ;-)
That illustration might be cookie-worthy.
awesome work man, i really like this style, cheers!
You are very creative and talented! Love the texture and design. I love your pumpkin below and admire the photographic as well as drawing skills. I hope you are thriving in the industry b/c you should be. Best of luck!
I like the change in style! Your illos were what sparked me to think outside of the box when doing the IF topics. :)
p.s. Thanks for the comment!
Clever idea. It'd make a brilliant band logo!
Oooooo, very cool. The shapes are so fluid. Nice one. I like how you are constantly challenging your style and abilities. Good stuff.
cool blog, visually beautiful
Beautiful work!
this is fabulous! Beautiful shapes and textures :)
Nice! I've always liked the symbolism of the Pheonix.
Very nice. You are right, Great minds do think alike. Cheers!
really cool!!! nice effect!! i like the way you've kept the feeling very organic, even though it is done with paths and is super-cripsy-clean - lined. cool.
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