adamo

hi! i think my favourite way is to redraw all the lines in photoshop in a huge resolution so that they look almost smooth and then bring them to illustrator and trace them with the live trace tool. the tool will eliminate any rougher edges and also give the lines various widths which is usually a good thing :) but there are many ways how to trace a picture and each situation asks for a different solution. good luck!

ideally 20” wide by 24” long by 300 dpi, that would be 6000 × 7200 pixels if you work in photoshop :) but i guess they must be used seeing people send in smaller files than that since i can’t imagine everybody working at those resolutions

:) (1) pen tool, takes a bit of learning to master, (2) brush, just make the sensitivity of your mouse very slow and draw extremely carefully, (3) draw a straight or whatever cornered line and add the curves through filter > liquefy. when tracing photos you should either do (2) in photoshop, don’t care that the lines look a bit ugly, then bring them to illustrator and auto-trace them. that will make them smoother and better looking. other solution would be to start working with the pen tool from the beginning. i suggest doing that in illustrator then, not photoshop.

no problems. hope to see some designs soon. :)

sure, if you wish, i can take a look :)

you can find my e-mail in my profile page. send it there.

hey! just received your drawing. i think it’s a great sketch. designs like that are very hot right now. of course, it’s still a sketch and it should be finished of nicely to be a quality work but as a sketch it really works and i can already see it on a tee. if you want to get better, i think it’s worth doing this same exercise again for several times and then choose the best of the outcomes. as many times as you can. the only difference between a professional graphics artist and a beginner often is that the pro knows why it’s worth to be patient. i’m still trying to teach that to myself, too. good luck! :)

it’s cool. i’m in a talking mood today :)

nop, the big life sucked me in before i managed to graduate, i’ve been working for the past 3 years and still do so. hope to return to school someday :)

i mean back to university, of course :) studied sociology. now looking more towards the visual communications

pretty much graphic design, yes

i change my working habits a lot. when you produce many works you have to otherwise you’ll be just repeating yourself. so i sometimes use photoshop sometimes illustrator. sometimes even both on one project. sometimes i sketch on a paper, sometimes i just have a clear idea in my head, and sometimes i don’t have a clue what am i going to make. whatever gets something done is good

and thanks for the interest, haha :)

illustrator takes practice but the spent time on learning it is well worth it. in most cases you can speed up your work flow 10 times when work with illustrator

it’s definitely something to do with the color profiles you use in photoshop and your monitor color settings. it’s a common problem when something’s been set wrong.

cool to hear. don’t spend too much time at the pc on the summer, tho, haha

haven’t paid enough attention yet! so i can’t tell

i think they would be very stoked if you entered as many designs as you can pull of, gives more to choose from :)

a ton of ideas is the only correct way to work, i think :)

haha! work as usual mostly. although, just signed up for a master class at beach volleyball with a world known trainer from florida. so hoping for the summer to kick in more in the next few weeks when the class goes on

the trainer is carlos cartaya :) he’s apparently the trainer of the spanish olympic silver medalist team. as far as i checked he was hot himself during the 80’s and early 90’s. trainings start next week, can’t wait. as for saving the thumbnail, i imagine you do that via ‘save as…’ function in photoshop/illustrator to get heavy files. well, that’s wrong in this case. use the “save for web…” function instead, it will give you plenty of controls how to reduce the file size of the image. good luck!

haha, yeah, it took some money but i’m sure it’s gonna be worth it. :) i used to play volleyball seriously when i was 12 to 18 and then after a serious thumb injury didn’t touch the ball for 5 years until this summer. so this is kinda chance to get the good old times back and you can’t value that in money, haha :) great start by the way, love the monster design. just one advise – put the placement picture as the first image, people often don’t look at the second image, you’ll surely get more votes that way

hit the thumb out of it’s position during a match so that it was hanging loosely at the lower part of the palm :) it healed in time so it wasn’t that bad :)

nop, didn’t buy a thing. still have 300 spare DBH credits left but since i already have more dbh shirts (have won 1000 dbh dollars in total) than i can wear, and since all my closest friends have had their shirts, too, i’m kinda out of ideas where to spend the rest :) so i’m holding on my credits for now, otherwise i’ll need to look for a bigger appartment for my t-shirt collection :) haha! how about you? got something?

yeah, i’ve been waiting for that shirt for ages :)

have u submitted design just recently. The vote page is in status quo ryt now. Lucky for those whos in the running…they were exposed for 4 days now. Ahahaha

Hey you, pleasure to come by your profile, if you want, mozey on down and take a look at my designs. Appreciate it if you vote and whatnot. Comments are totally welcomed. Fank you!

yeah, watched beach volley LAT : USA today? :)

latvia :) it’s country :)

haha I’m actually wearing that shirt right now! Yeah, it’s totally hand drawn, no use of the text tool in PS or anything!

I dunno, there are so many amazing entries already, and I’m doing something for a client right now too, so it’s not the best time unfortunately. It will be interesting to see who wins!

Thanks! I dunno what to do with that one. Maybe I’ll throw it up on here? Don’t know how well it’d do though.

danngggg, thanks!

eventually i will….:) thanks again.

i think it’s worth redoing!

adamo! thanks so much for you vote and comment :D it did! it took me 4 days :D the original design was supposed to be for a band here in the Phil., but they didnt go for it, so i adjusted the design, {added 2 more days:p}, and im happy with the outcome, win or lose :D thanks so much again! :D cheers!

hahaha! well apparently the band that didnt get back to me about the design :p hahahah :D thanks so much for the kindness dude! :D well, not one of the best shirts :P i’m just happy the people approve of it :D hahaha :) i’m happy to contribute :D weeeeeee!

Hey, great work!! Would love your opinion+vote on my designs, thanks for your time. MG

a local band here in the Phil. :D takenbycars:) they are pretty good, and they are nice people :) i really wanted to see the design printed for them, but they never got back to me sooner. :P oh well :D if they ever ask again, i’ll have to think about it i guess :p hehehehehe

hahaaa thanks man :)

hahaha :D yupyupyup :) they are one of the better bands here so far :D you’ve heard of urbandub? :)

HEY GOOD WORK. CHECK MINE & VOTE IF U LIKE ;)
Buenos Diseños. Mira los mios y Vota.
Todo Monocuco Guayabero!!!

yupyup! :) one of the premiere bands here in the phil. :) check em out on myspace :)

I can’t believe how much you’ve progressed during these months. Great work! Keep rockin’!

Si no vas a opinar algo constructivo, mejor te callas. SAPO.
Have a nice day :)

nice designs dude!!!!!

the trainer was more I had hoped for. i had signed for two weeks and when they were over, signed for another two weeks. i was really good to get back to something that i had loved so much a while ago, it definitely made my summer and I learned a lot, too. i’m hoping to see him again on spring at the canary islands, i’m addicted now

Hi colleagues to “work” xD, check out my my new design that I did vote and beauty? thank you very much!

Hey, help a canadian brother out by checking out his(mine) noobie submission?

you have some really really great stuff. Awesome work!!

Hi fellow creative human, just wanted to see how your art is going in 2009. I hope your inner creative juices remain flowing during the year. I Just posted a fresh new piece Have a look Red Bonzai Sea. I spent most of my time on the water part hope you enjoy it.