Fantasy Appliance -- Start to finish

               Beginning Images for Monday, Jan. 23rd

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                          First Rough -  Wednesday, Jan. 25th  

So here's the first rough. Just a simple outline of the dragon using the pen tool for now *I'll fill in more later,* and a few layered live traces to make the hairdryer.

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Update for Monday, Jan. 30th  

I've just been working on drawing the details of the dragon with the pen tool over the weekend. Here's what I have so far....

Here is a clearer image of what I've drawn on the dragon so far without the original raster image behind it. This is all done with the pen tool -- no Live Trace used. 

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                           Update for Wednesday, Feb. 1st

So I added a little bit more to the dragon and slapped the hairdryer on his head *I still need to work on the dryer itself.* I also created a rough layout for the background and other elements of the scene. I plan on making all the elements a little crisper, and I'll have to play around with scale and value to establish a proper hierarchy. 

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                 In-Class Progress - Wednesday, Feb. 1st

I spent the majority of my time in class playing around with various compositions. Here are the different possibilities I considered....

  

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                            Update - Monday, Feb. 6th

I've been working on developing the girl. My main concern was figuring out how I wanted her hair to look. I want to create the sense of it being blown back by the force of the fire and also being damaged by the heat. So here are a few rough hand-drawn sketches...

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Update 02 - Monday, Feb. 6th

Here's the start of what she'll look like traced in Ai. Still need to add the details, shading, and adjust the values, of course...

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Update for Final Critique - Monday, Feb. 8th

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Here is my "final" image. As I mentioned during the critique, I am not satisfied with the background and how I solved that. I'm going to play around with it a little more tonight before trying to print it tomorrow.

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Update for Final Critique - Monday, Feb. 8th

So I decided to go back to the idea of creating an environment because I really wasn't happy with the above image. I'm still not thrilled with the result, there a disconnection between the style of the background and the style of the girl, but it at least another option to consider...