With valentines day approaching, I decided to post this. It is an illustration I made
for a valentine last year. Although most of it was done by hand there was some
compositing that I did in photoshop. The splattered paint splotches behind the flowers
were painted on a separate paper and were then composited into the illustration.
The only other thing I did digitally was change the background color to that creamy
off-white shade instead of the broght white paper that it was made on. The illustration
was done on two sheets of paper that were taped together, because it was a quick
afternoon project that I made on a whim and had no other larger paper to do it on
at the time. I decided to keep the overlapping paper edge and tape because I liked them

Amazing concept.

Even if the illustration of the heart was not delivered with such finesse I would have liked the concept itself.

foolakadugie, it might have looked good if you gave a little bit detail to the flowers and vines. I do not know - may be you did not have a large enough paper to put in the details - OR - you wanted to keep the collage-style.

Anyway, a well executed piece. I have an impulse to create a vector art based on this.

Thanks. I have thought about whether I should have put more detail in the flowers and I haven't completely made a decision on it yet. I suppose I could always add it in digitally. The heart does look kind of separate from the flowers I guess due to the difference in detail. Their are a few reasons why I did do it how I did though. First, I wanted it to have a sort of messy splattery quality like the paint and was hesitant in making it too busy with the splatters and details. The other reason was that it was a last minute project that I made ON valentines day and was in sort of a rush. I like combining different styles together and using mixed media/materials so the difference in styles is sort of part of my aesthetic tastes

thanks for the comments and critiques!

Whoa, that is, like, totally cool. I doodle ALL the time, and yet... I still kinda stink. Yours was totally awesome. Maybe I should take an art elective or something...

WOw. that is such a good idea.

I like how the idea of blood/veins coming out to create flowers.

How did you come up with this idea?
Good imagination

eFX

Yes, you can always add more details. That is the flexibility we have when we are working digitally. And I do know how it is when we start to work on something and we feel there is a lot we can do, but we need to do it with in a particular time.
Hey, foolakadugie, would it be fine if I tried illustrating this using vector art? I like the concept.

thanks
Just practice and maybe try looking at other art. Look at what you are drawing
as the shapes that it is composed of rather than what it is. That always helped me.


Well I was just thinking of symbols of love and growth, etc and just sort of fused them together.
I think I had been awake for about 48 hours and sleep deprivation always seems to put me in
a creative mode.




If you only plan on doing it for your own personal enjoyment/practice/learning, then go right ahead,
but if you plan on posting/displaying it somewhere, would it be ok to give me some credit for the concept?
Maybe just mention that it was based on an illustration/concept of mine (My name is Randy Hutchins).

If you do, I would really like to see what you could do to make it your own work/interpretation. See what
you can do to bring in your own composition, personality and style to it (because that is what art is all
about, right? ).

This post has been edited by foolakadugie: Feb 7 2007, 08:46 AM

Well, I will be actually doing it on two fronts foolakadugie.

One, I will just try out a vector art impelementation of your artwork itself. It will be definetly nothing but copying, I know, but it will help me study the curves and colors. It will be for my own practice, but I will post it here in this thread itself. There will be nothing of my own in it, other than the conversion work, that I can call my own, and obviously I will give the credit to you.

As another piece of work, I have been thinking and doodling around on another concept (that is ofcourse a fork from this one), and this particular piece of work you would be a spark of inspriation in that process. I have been thinking of some more ideas, in terms of some duality that can occur on a person, that I will put in this second work I am talking about. I would again, definetly credit you on the original concept. (But hey! For this one, I will try to stake out as much credit for myself as possible. )

I hope today's work at my job does not eat up a lot of my time and energy - I am looking forward to work on this.

Sounds great! Enjoy!
I look forward to seeing them.

the image is great i like the way the heart veins concept mixed with the flower ,i always like such wonderful ideas , this illustration is a wonderful do you mind if i send it to my gf in email hehe , canlt give u credit here hehehe