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!
