Danika

I found a photo of this cover, low res and couldn't work out how many colours they had used, so a little artistic license. But thought I'd re-do it and limited the colours to the obvious ones. Drawing all the lettering is always fun.

I do have an Office license but actually use LibreOffice these days, no spying on you for starters. Think probably purple for save, easy to spot without really looking as it's often the only purple icon but blue looks ok. The magnifying glass handle didn't look great so I used the folder... outline colour. 
These are 1/2 size, 40px.  
 

 

1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900, the Mille Miglia winner that year with its sister car finishing in second place. My last vector one for this year. 
 

Just another useless youtube video, nothing new there it's full of them. As everyone except this type knows, emulating natural media isn't the be all and end all to digital art neither is raster a prerequisite. Now if he had called it the best natural media apps then that would be different.

My favourite as a kid with its art deco looks and having the speed record of 126mph. Back then I didn't realise it was one of a quite a few class A4's. Designed by Nigel Gresley and built in 1938 by London & North Eastern Railway in Doncaster.
I'll likely shrink it down a bit so there's more sky above the funnel but have left it like that for now so it's easier to work on and see the details.
The outline's without the background otherwise it looks even more of a mess.

Nothing to say, it is what it is.

Mad Max Fury Road.

Just messing around, 3 colours (plus the paper colour). I used the ipad for a change, still not a big fan of the mobile version. The 1989 Batmobile. Might do some more when I'm bored.

Just wow.

I'm not sure it was worth the bother but something in it might be of use to someone!
Photorealistic Thoughts and Tips.pdf

I fancied doing something shiny, not too easy but not too complicated either, 2 weeks max, so decided to see if I could get this done. Shame it turned out to be such a horrible movie. There was too much background on the photo I used so I cropped it to something a bit more interesting.
Who needs fancy pants gradient meshes when there’s the pen tool
Sorry about the equally horrible compression.

It's not often you see her with a beard, must have caught her on a off day 

Thanks. They never look as good as they do at full resolution, this is about 7.5k pixels square reduced to about 2k for here. A tiny part at full res.

Holy crab nuggets, Batman

I wanted something more than a standard product shot which practically everyone seems to do. They are great for their intended purpose but I don’t find them an interesting subject and they are just too easy. So this was from my folder of things I might want to do sometime.
Subjects that on the face of it seem fairly simple aren’t necessarily less work, this took at least 4 times as long as the Porsche.
Back to the complicated/slow ones now.

My main complicated drawings are taking ages so I thought I would work on a few easier ones at the same time. This is the first to be finished.
For me Gulf Racing is the most iconic colour scheme in motor racing and I’ve been meaning to do a 917 but never got around to it until now. Unsurprisingly there aren’t a whole lot of overhead shots of it so this was based on photos of the 1:8 scale die cast model by Amalgam Collection. Very high end, about £10k but bespoke can apparently cost up to £120k. Not something to let the kids play with. 
On the Porsche 917K’s public debut at the 1970 Daytona 24 Hours, John Wyer's Gulf-sponsored team finished 1-2 in the race. The winning number 2 car driven by Pedro Rodríguez, Leo Kinnunen and Brian Redman broke the distance record by 190 miles.

A not so low polygon version of Whistler's Mother by James Abbott McNeill 1871. Which was actually called "Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1", not many people know that.
 

A lazy day, I couldn't be bothered to do anything proper. So did this while watching/listening to the The Mandalorian episodes.

Had a break from a new "proper" drawing,. Another V for vector, nice to do without having to think too much.

I was one pixel off in each direction for the computer, should have measured at actual size.
 
 

This doesn't count as drawing as it's so easy and just a bit of fun 😉I keep meaning to do some classic mac icons but updated however I'm not sure what style to do them. Coloured versions of the originals or more fancy (anti-aliased) /skeuomorphic.
Today I was messing around with just one, the Mac, which seemed like a sensible one to start on. The first is the System 1 style which came, unsurprisingly, with the first mac's the 128k and then 512k. It was a challenge to do 😂All the icons were monochrome which makes sense as so were the screens. The second is just a recolour of the first just to see if it looked ok or not. The 3rd is system 7 style, they showed them grey for some reason, probably low colour. Then the final one is a skeuomorphic one. I didn't bother with system 9 as they went 3d by then and aren't particularly pretty. Also I think they dropped the classic mac icons by then as the power macs had replaced them.
I might do some more as even doing some skeuomorphic style ones aren't exactly taxing. 

This is the last drawing I’m going to do in AD, mainly as I’m so fed up of the layers panel, I’ve just had enough of it. Perhaps it’s only me but I must waste so many hours during a project because of it. I’ve a few in progress which I may possibly finish off sometime but will probably just start them again in something else. I’ll do some more styles and start on some brushes instead. Anyway…
This was a sort of a quickie. I was really more interested in drawing the Ektachrome box but really had to do the camera too, well sort of. I couldn’t find any decent quality references so normally would have given it a miss but decided to try anyway even though it was taken with Mr.blurry cam and only about 2k square. Of course I couldn’t find the fonts for the box so used the closest and edited them. The markings on the camera body are the regular Braun font, Akzidenz Grotesk. The digits and text around the lens are hand drawn guesses as it was just too blurry and so are fairly dreadful if you zoom in, so don’t!
 

It didn't take too long for photorealistic as it's not photorealistic unless you've never seen a photo 😉but it still looks good, a Bond Seamaster. I did look at those before getting the Planet Ocean. The only thing is you have the light coming from the left on the body and the bezel showing it coming from the right. With the profile of the bevel I don't think it can look like that but you only have to flip it.

This has been a work in progress for seemingly ages and thought I would post and it might jolt me back in to trying to finish it! As usual just the pen tool.

I needed a quick script to make it easier to create some styles that contained stripes using the fx gradient overlay but it obviously also works with the standard gradient. With just a few stripes and it's easy enough but when you are doing 20 or more with fractional percentages it's too much for my tiny mind to easily keep track of 
So just enter the odd and even stripe width percentages then where any padding should go and it lists the gradient stops to add. I copied the output to a text file and as I completed steps just deleted them from the list. It saved me a headache. 
Don't look too hard at the messy code, it was a quickie!
Stripes.py