the Original Jesi

I got a new job, woo-hoo! And I can’t say it was what I imagined when I thought about my dream job, but it’s got a damn good sallary and after taking out 50K in loans, that was a strong motivating factor. The job apparently will entail a lot of graphic design and much less of 3D art. That being said, I have been brushing up on my illustrator skills lately. I made two small pieces today one using a few clip art images from a tutorial a friend referred me to (I didn’t actually read the tutorial because I’m cheap so I just referenced some of the thumbnail images and the final image and tried to copy as best I could).

Practicing vector art in Illustrator (referenced from a Russell Tate tutorial)

And because I like to listen to various things, I happened to be listeningto some music from an old Japanese animated show I used to watch called Inuyasha. I googled one of the cuter characters (a child fox demon) named Shippo and tried my hand at this style as well.

Vector Art practice recreating Rumiko Takahashi's "Shippo"

Like the cheesy text gradient? I’m still working on gradients in Illustrator… lol.  What gives with the different sized Shippo’s? I was checking out edge fidelity from scaling, looks pretty good even small (or blown up) oh the magic of vector art!

I feel my 3Ds Max skills beginning to wane already. I’m going to try and keep up on creating 3D models and environments, but consider this small amounts of training before I start my new job. As far as I can tell I’ll be doing user interface for software applications, more to come on that when I actually start my job.

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