photo illustration

"Erínye" Case Study

paul0v2 — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:40:53 +0000

Erínye is another piece by the Polish illustrator Wojciech Pijecki. His works are amazing and he loves to share his process which make us a big fan. In this case study he will show step by step how "Erínye" was done for the SlashThree XVII Quote Unquote Exhibition.

For more form Wojciech visit synectic.pl or twitter @wojciechpijecki

SlashTHREE XII Exhibition: Quote Unquote

Illustrations created for international art collective Slashthree. Released and featured within Art Pack XVII: Quote Unquote.

About Exhibition

The idea of this theme was to interpret a famous quotes in an illustrative manner. Profound quotes can often provoke deep reactions, but lets not forget "a picture speaks a thousand words". We are hoping that interpreting the quotes as images & music, we will be able to convey the initial meanings of these quotes but with other nuances that you may not have been aware of.

Erínye

Quote

"Metaphor for a missing moment."

A Perfect Circle - Orestes

Breakdown

Case Study

About the author

Hi there! I'm Paulo Canabarro, 26 year old web designer - paulocanabarro.com I'm from Brazil currently living and working out of Providence RI, USA. I'm truly passionate about design of all kinds, finding and sharing inspiration here has become part of my life. If you like to know more about me or get in touch visit my website paulocanabarro.com Stock me at Twitter and Dribbble

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Illustrated by Music

paul0v2 — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:45:21 +0000

I made an amazing selection of album cover from upcoming bands that you provably don't know about. The artwork that comes with this unknown music is just amazing, this scene gives chance to many artists and designers to create outstanding work and here are a few for you to check out.

To find out more about each piece, just click on it and to view more band artworks visit bandjob.com

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Digital Illustrations by Mateusz Sypien

paul0v2 — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:58:01 +0000

Mateusz Sypien also known as Digimental is from Poland and has some incredible digital illustrations skills. The mix of dark futuristic imagery with neon lights is incredible. Check it out!

For more from Mateusz visit digi-mental.com

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Case Study: Nike Apparel

paul0v2 — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:34:42 +0000

In this case study will go over step by step how the masters from Ars Thanea (Peter Jaworowski and Karol Kolodzinski) created this amazing photo illustration for Nike, to be part of Nike's 2010 t-shirt collection. This just opened my mind to so many ideas, hope the same will happen to you, check it out!

Take It To The Max & Zero Gravity

Agency: Ars Thanea

Digital Artists: Peter Jaworowski, Karol Kolodzinski

3D Artist: Pawel Wilkos

The Process

Details

Final Result

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Mysterious Photo Illustrations

paul0v2 — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:04:04 +0000

Sergey is a Russian photo illustrator with amazing styles. Each piece is very intriguing to the eyes as you try to understand the mystery behind the image. Sergey claims that his works are not like the pros because he doesn't spend a lot of time in each piece and he experiments a lot and that's the base of his amazing style.

Click here to see more of his work!

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Incredible Photo Illustrations by Job Hall

paul0v2 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:39:37 +0000

Job Hall is the illustrator responsible for the amazing images of TYR Sport and his photo illustrations skills are amazing. If you like well retouched photos, sports photography and everything in between this will sure inspire you. Enjoy!

For more from Job Hall behance.net/Strike17

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Case Study "Soldiers of Peace" by Younes

paul0v2 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:59:15 +0000

Today we have another case study, for everyone that likes to learn from other processes. This case study you will see each step of Younes Ze latest creation "Soldiers of Peace". It's a great photo illustrations and it will show you that things can go from dry to wet very quick.

For more visit http://www.behance.net/younesze

Soldiers of Peace

Case Study

Final Result

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Breathtaking Photo Illustrations by Valp

paul0v2 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:38:20 +0000

Straight from Poland, Maciej Hanjnrich aka Valp is a super talented artist/designer, with a mixed portfolio that goes from illustrations to web designs, he manages to keep everything the flame going wherever he's working. Check out some of his best photo illustrations.

Maciej Hajnrich aka Valp is a Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Art Director.
Born in 1981, living and working in Katowice, Poland. Self-taught and full-time freelance artist with five years of experience in print and webdesign. Valp has established himself as a creative digital artist - after years of experimenting and playing with imagination he has build his own style with high attention to details, colours and textures. Graphic design for Valp always was something more than just a profession.

During last two years of his full-time freelance work he was commissioned by Back Row Productions, Platige Image, Weinsten Company, Warner Music Poland, Armada Skis to name a few. Valp designed illustrations for such a great musical Pricilla - Queen of the Desert; he was also a judge for iStockphoto's Battle Royale and his work has been widely published.

Valp is also a member of Keystone Design Union and Depthcore digital arts community.

For more visit http://www.valpnow.com

Tri'Angel

Personal illustration. Name came from mixing 'angel' with 'triangle' (third artwork after Trust the Future and Winter Espionage). Photo by Shane Aves.

Pure Energy

Personal artwork, originally published in HEIST pack by depthCore collective and Invisible Borders (Reg'Arts) exhibition at Lille, France (2009).

TVP2 styleframe

Styleframe | Work in progress (comp not finished). Commissioned by Odeon.

Copernicus Science Centre

World In Motion | Artwork presenting one of the exhibitions. Commissioned by Platige Image. Visit Copernicus website.

Copernicus Science Centre

World In Motion | Artwork presenting one of the exhibitions. Commissioned by Platige Image. Visit Copernicus website.

Priscilla Queen of the Desert

Musical illustration

Copernicus Science Centre

Visualisation: Cinetical statue on the roof garden on the Copernicus Science Centre. Commissioned by Platige Image. Visit Copernicus website.

We Like To Create

Entertainment TV Styleframe

A Touch Of Me

Lifestyle magazine cover proposal

Katowice Anomaly

Music Festival Illustration

Millennium Software illustration

Winter Espionage

Trust The Future

Pakarabanu

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Beautiful Photo Illustrations by Anthony Giacomino

paul0v2 — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:30:32 +0000

Anthony Giacomino aka agiaco is 20 years old and pursuing a major in graphic design. The beauty about his work is the creativity he has and the very strong use of colors. The mix of photos and illustrations with such style is hard not to love. Check it out!

Hi, my name is Anthony and I am a 19 year old designer based in the United States currently pursuing a job as a graphic designer. I do love art in all forms and creating digital art is my passion. Feel free to contact me on messenger or here for questions, comments, or commission projects.

For more visit agiaco.net

Bust

Global Freezing

Refuge in The Sky

Chromatic Flow

One with Nature

Lost 2kan

Tangled

Karate Lesson

Lost in Colour

Gaia

Egyptian

Vitality

Soul

If you really enjoy his works as much as I did, find out how to buy a print here.

Which piece did you like the most?

Which ones would you like to have on your wall?

"My personal favorite is Tangled, I would love to have it on my wall along with Egyptian and Lost 2kan."

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Sport Photo Illustration Step by Step

paul0v2 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:51:51 +0000

"Pele" is a sport photo illustration using mostly basic skills so I decided to share this is a detailed case study which I will not only show the steps of how it was done, but I also wrote what was exactly done in each and every step so you can watch and learn a bit.

To see more of my work visit my behance gallery www.behance.net/paul0v2
(For tutorials and case study suggestions contact me at paulo.abduzeedo@gmail.com)

Pele is a collab I did with the photographer Sam Robles, he contacted me with a couple photos of this soccer player that reminds of the king Pele and what we had in mind is pretty much what we got as a result, place him on a field and make it look realistic and hot at the same time, and this is what I got.

For more from Sam Robles visit samrobles.com and behance.net/Sam_Robles

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CASE STUDY

Here you will be able to see the steps I took to get to the final result, the image started with the soccer player photo by Sam Robles, the others are stock photos I had to keep the quality so i went with the best place ShutterStock.

01 - First thing I did was to select the player out of his photo, I used a pen tool on this case. This is a very important step to your work, if you don't do this right it will bite you back at the end so take you time and make sure you get a good selection. I took me about an hour to get that in case you wondering.

02 - Now I place the stadium photo on the background, somewhere around the middle because I still have the sky and the grass to fit in.

03 - Since I first seen the stadium photo I noticed the grass was not exactly what I wanted that's why I grabbed another photo with better grass and here you can see the difference.

04 - Placing the sky now, I could go with something blue and nice but the final look that I had in mind was kinda dark so I decided to go with a nice cloudy sky.

05 - Now that I have almost everything in place it's time to work a bit on the illumination so I can make these photos look more like one. Starting with the grass, I create a layer over it and with the Gradient Tool and the color black I create a shade around the grass to make it look like it belongs there.

06 - The same step I did with the grass I repeat on the sky, getting it a little darker.

07 - Time to fix the stadium light now, this one is a little trickier because I want to make the right side a lot lighter than the left one so it looks like the light is the same way as it is on the player, to get that done I used the technique I taught here (Manipulation Basics: Illumination and Coloration)

08 - Now that I correct a little bit in every photo the image is starting to look better, to give a whole better look to it I decided to add a crowd there, it takes a bit of patience but it's not hard to do, I used the pen tool to select the empty spaces and placed the crowd photo in there, re-sized to look real and added a darker shade on the edges so it blends in well as you can see.

09 - The scenario already got everything I wanted, time to make it look even more real so I replace the soccer ball with new and better looking one. Also added shadow of the player (following the light direction on his body) and a little shade under his foot and the ball so they won't look like they are flying. I also created a new layer to add some light around the player so that area stay lighter than the others to bring more attention to that area.

10 - This step was essential for my image to have that look it had in the end. I saved the image as it was and using Adobe Lightroom I made the image look somewhere like an overdone fake hdr photo, saved as a .jpg and placed it back on top of all the layers, I reduced the Opacity a bit so the over all look wasn't too overdone and this kinda worked as a texture.

11 - Now on top of that I create a couple layers to fix the lights, this time more like an overall instead of each photo separate. I put some light coming from the top left, also add light to the stadium and got the grass a little darker.

12 - My last steps were to give more shadow around the player since I put light on the stadium the shadow usually goes 4 ways so I did that but still left that main shadow darker because the light on the player was on that direction. The last thing I did was add the color, I did that by adding a layer desaturating the whole image a little bit and another layer on top with the final color I wanted to apply on the image.

I hope everyone like this case study and remember if you want you results to come out good always pay attention to details.