100% vector art
Crossing Death's Frontier
In this department you find 100% vector art. Portraits, illustrations and paintings, logos, business cards, cartoons and technical art for educational purposes that do not contain a single pixel. Properly drawn vector art can be re-scaled to any desired size without loss of quality.
This website is an example of what can be done in modern web design, i.e. Web 3.0 type of web building that allows free positioning of objects, unrestricted by the page grid and stacking order, which makes it possible for web designers to create next level sites. The program I used to create this landing page, is the innovatively brilliant Nicepage . The image is a screendump of the landing page for Earth & Flight Composites' Wordpress online training website.
A good logo must be eye catching and settle easy in the mind so that it is swiftly retrieved from memory along with accompanying information at a later point in linear / cyclical time.
Cartoons may have mild or extreme distortion of the subject's face, keeping the likeness. If this criterium isn't met the usefulness of a cartoon goes out the window. In this image Elvis and Kill Bill Clinton are in the top row and Mr. Bean and Jeltsin in the bottom one.
Complex vector illustrations I make in Affinity Designer, simply because there is nothing that can't be done in vector drawing programs that can be done in bitmap editors. The added benefit of vectors being unlimited scalability.
In a stack of business cards a well designed card must stand out and be picked first before the rest. I draw these in 2D and 3D vectors so the design can easily be changed later should this by any chance become a client requirement.
I have drawn many hundreds of technical drawings for educational purposes from scratch, both in 2D and 3D or a combination of them, mostly for the advanced composites field of the aviation and space industry. I always place myself in the position of the student to create images that make sense to one in the process of learning.
Since the early 1980's of the previous century I have been using airbrush guns to create art, among which is the difficult to tune and handle, but legendary accurate and versatile Paasche Turbo (now out of production) that I used to create this portrait.
Brush and paint have been the tools for many artists throughout the centuries and they still are today. Every now and then I pick up the hairy brush to swipe some paint on a real canvas. I don't feel tethered to any particular technique, style or trend to create art.
If there is no electricity available to power the tools for certain types of art creation, (colour) pencils still work. My venture in the world of art creation started using charcoal, then moved to colour pencils, airbrush and finally the computer to create digital art. So far.
Making design to be printed on T-shirts is a different kind of discipline. They have to be large and sharp to show properly on textile and additional objects, such as mugs, mouse mats etc. while the designer has to guess what type of designs will most likely sell.
