I’m a big fan of the artwork style of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice In Wonderland”. I was inspired to do a Alice in Wonderland poster once before, which I titled, “Who Are You?“ I really like the modern look of “Vector Art”, which I have been doing for years, but really started focusing on it about a year ago. The idea, is to use as few colors as possible. To use smooth solid, flowing lines, instead of typical shading and gradients. “Who Are You?” was pretty detailed, but more so in the grassy area. On “Velvet Hand”, I really wanted to focus on the lines, as you can notice in the Alice’s hair.
Overall, I really like the poster. It took almost twice as many hours as “Who Are You?”. I’m not 100% satisified, but I figured I better just settle and call it done or it might never see the light of day. The areas I’m most concerned with are the tree leaves, and the Mushroom. These were also the last two areas I did, which probably means I was getting a little burnt out on it. Maybe I’ll revisit those someday.
Velvet Hand – Medium Definition
The poster is 11″ x 17″ and 300 dpi, which makes it 3300 pixels wide by 5100 pixels tall. That’s pretty difficult to view on a monitor (since it’s designed to be printed) so I cut it in half so you could view it, yet maintain a bit of the quality. Click on it to view the full size “Medium Definition”.
Velvet Hand – Low Definition
This one is as user friendly as it gets. I cut it down to almost a quarter in size. This one is only 800 pixels wide.
Velvet Hand – Texture 1
I was just playing with some stuff at this point. I put a bit of a “weathered” texture on it to see how it looked.
Velvet Hand – Texture 2
This is more of the screwing around. I was just bored and playing with some ideas.
Conclusion
And that’s it! I’m throwing around the possibility of doing a “collection” of Alice In Wonderland inspired posters. I’ve already got one with her and Caterpillar, and one with her and Cheshire Cat. I’m thinking of doing some more of her with each of the main characters – Mad Hatter, Twins, The Queen of Hearts, and a couple others. I don’t know, we’ll see! Let me know what you think!
Tags: Art, Books, Design, Graphics, Inspiration, Movies, Photoshop, Poster, Projects, Vector
February 8th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
That looks super good. Did you do it in photoshop? Not too long ago I found out you can import your graphics from photoshop into illustrator and it converts the layers into real vector images. I tried it but illustrator kept giving me some stupid memory error and shut down.
Anyway, that is a really impressive poster. Are you going to get it printed as an actual poster? That would be cool.
February 9th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Yeah, it was done all in Photoshop. I’ve actually done the importing into Illustrator thing. It works pretty good. I need to actually learn Illustrator though. It would make my life so much easier, its just weird for me for some reason. It’s like it tricks you into thinking you’re in Photoshop, but they swap tools around, and change the hotkeys just to mess with you.
I do plan on printing this, and the other one. I did a wedding present poster for a friend of mine and had it printed. It actually looked pretty good even though it was cheapo Staples printing.
I gotta do something with the mushroom though. It’s driving me crazy. The mushroom in the first one looked really good, but this one looks like a weird blob to me.
February 10th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Pretty cool stuff. My new place needs some art on the wall, if you’re catchin’ my drift…
February 10th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Well, I know you already grabbed the artwork from http://www.LemonParty.org, but what else are you looking for? If you wanna print this I can burn you a CD. Staples will do it for like $10.
May 17th, 2011 at 10:27 am
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