Inspi­ra­tions come in all places, some of mine seems to come from dreams…

A few days ago, I told myself that I need to reject the idea that I can’t draw.  So I started to look at tuto­ri­als how to draw and learn how to “think”.  One of the meth­ods is to think each objects in line and shapes how that object is made up instead of let the brain telling me what that object is.  Using that method, I tried vec­tor­iz­ing an image.  I feel that helps me to learn how to put the shapes together as much as draw­ing – and the prod­uct was my USB icons.   The result was quite good, and that was a very good exer­cise appar­ently… (more…)

Did I say I can’t draw?  Well, I can’t.  Any­ways, this is my first attempt of “trac­ing” an icon off a photo I took.  No, I don’t mean using the Bitmap Trace in either Flash or Illus­tra­tor, I hand traced this using a com­bi­na­tion of tech­niques I know using the Pen Tool, Gra­di­ents, and Gauss­ian Blur.  I’m hav­ing a hard time with Gra­di­ent Mesh, I’m going to try my hands on them again later.  Below are: 256×256, 96×96, and 48×48 PNG.  You may down­load the fol­low­ing PNG for per­sonal use only.  Feed­back are appre­ci­ated. (more…)