so anyway, this was a little project I started to make a poster for my friend. It's quite a hassle since I found it so hard to get a hold of pictures of everyone I wanted to be in the picture. I was also going for a specific look and feel to the poster, which was that I wanted everyone to be grinning or making an expression showing joy or enjoyment of something. Needless to say that some pictures weren't expressing anything other than a shitty smile because retards on facebook delete any pictures they don't like of themselves and leave hundreds of pictures that they approve of which have the same look as each other.
Well anyway, I won't post everyones picture since it's still not finalised but here's some of the people I've thrown in to the work:
See now I didn't bother cutting everyone properly, there's no point. I'm going to be layering on top of those pictures anyway. The person I was making this for is the girl on the bottom left. I really like that picture of her on the project; she did have her arm out extended as if to say "these are my friends" but I didn't think I needed the arm as her expression and the size of her on the project was big enough to imply it.
See now after that I decided to start doing some vector bullshit, with the pen tool and the colour choosing thing tool. I don't know but I ended up with this:
See now that vector stuff on top of her is no where near finished. Most of the time I can't see the grand picture if I'm sober, so I've been doing this when sober at times and then at other times I do it when I'm a little different. More and more detail has been added to it, but I'll update the next shot when I finalise a few more things. Each of them there will be vectored. It's a time consuming process, no doubt the easiest part though. I find it hard to choose colours though, and I don't have steady hands at all, it gives the picture a bloody childlike look which annoys me, but that's one of the reasons also why I do the picture when I'm a little non-sober, I have a much steadier hand then.
If I had to say what the hardest part was, then I'd say it's vectoring the hair. Even in my head I find it hard to visualise what it should look like, I mean photoshop is all automatic, so whatever I see in my head, photoshop practically does more than half of it on its own, but when it comes to the hair, I tend to struggle as I can't really see it in my head either on what it should look like.
