This post is part of a weekly series showcasing inspirational vector art. Although the series showcases vector art, some work might just be vector inspired, not created completely with vector art. If you have any art suggestions, feel free to comment! For more vector art inspiration, check out the Vectips Flickr Group.
El Gran Mago by Rubens Scarelli
Birthed Creative Studio
Bella Swan Vector by egba94
Angelina Jolie Vector by egba94
city of stones by MisterISK
Murder Scene by ChewedKandi
Welcome to Africa (Ndere dancer) by tsevis
Basic love of things by Evgeny Kiselev
varios 2 by Guisante
Illustration-Part 2 by Rodolfo Velado
Happy August – STW 2010 by Pablo Alfieri
Aged Beauty by bcassidy
right round by deftbeat
münchhausen by vectorian
Circuit Being . Ser Circuito by Mario Nieva
Juice . Jugo by Mario Nieva
Genaro De Sia Coppola
octopus dream 02 by bboypion
Angel by grelin-machin
Vix Graphix
Jonathan Maloney
Loulou & Tummie
crossGirl by stenkat
Antonella Spagnoli
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What I can never understand us why these guys use their awesome mesh skills (and countless hours) to reproduce someone else’s photo. I guess it’s the closest they’re ever going to get to Angelina Jolie – haha!
I think working with photorealism in Illustrator defeats the purpose of the program. When you make something that intricate and detailed you get a file that’s difficult to manage and isn’t that lightweight anymore. And no matter how much time you put into it, it always shows somewhere. The Angelina Jolie, for example, is masterly executed but it’s still obvious that the skin is off and the pants look plasticy.I feel the same way with oil-paintings portraying photorealism. If it’s supposed to look like a photo, go with the photo. It’s a difficult medium to master anyway.
I feel creativety and originality is more important.
cool, Antonella looks great! nice round up!
Great post. Very inspiring!
great showcase as usual 🙂 i especially love the glassy vibrancy of the octopus dream. gotta love blending modes!
Looks like a Photoshop filter first and then Live Trace in Illustrator – tweaked a little and brought back into PS for some more filters.
It really pisses me off when people try and pass stuff like that off as their own hard work.
Yeah it sucks
What really pisses me off is that Vectips posted it as part of their weekly inspiration without bothering to validate its authenticity, and passively encouraging the person’s misleading methods.
It wasn’t my intention to mislead anyone by posted the images of egba94 in question. When I looked at the close up of the vector images of egba94, they did not seem like gradient meshes but pretty much a really nice autotrace like Esz talked about above. But I am glad people are writing about their concerns. When I have posted realistic vectors in the past, they seemed very popular, but I personally don’t like the realistic gradient mesh work. I think of them as pointless and unoriginal.
Still I decided to post the images…
I guess I wanted to see what people thought. I wanted to see if they liked this polished auto trace just as much as some of the highly skilled gradient mesh vectors. Because in my opinion, they are not that different. Sure it take a lot more skill to create some of the highly intricate gradient meshes compared to pressing an auto-trace button, but aren’t they just the same thing, a derivative of the original photo? Where is the creativity it that. Granted, some of the popular gradient-mesh vector artist use their own original sourced photos and compositions to create their vectors and I can understand the need for the flexible vector format but I am not impressed. Just because it took over 60 hours to create it doesn’t make it that impressive to me.
So for those of you who are mad about these images, are you just made because egba94 didn’t put the work in? Or is it something else?
I think it’ fun to discuss these topics, It reminds me of my college art class days. Whenever we would have class critiques, there are the artist that believe skill is everything and there are those that believe creativity and composition are everything. Which are you?
Oh I dont blame YOU specifically for putting the art up there – its great that it incites discussion. 😀
I totally agree with you on both the autotrace and the gradient mesh work being rather unimaginative.
The way I see it, you can become very skilled at tracing and have a good technical ability but what makes you an artist is being able to create something from your MIND and come up with things YOURSELF.
I see many many ‘artists’ on DeviantArt who are immensely popular but all they are doing is copying other people’s photos in different mediums. I wouldn’t call that art.
So I’m definitely in the creativity is king camp 😀
Superb collection as allways!
Is there any trick for achieving that sweater effect in egba94’s first work, or it’s full gradient mesh? That detail has blown me!
I doubt it was a gradient mesh job. I reckon it was some sort of filter effect that kinda Vectorizes it.
Great collection. xD
wow! great collection ^^
right round by deftbeat looks like a ripp off of Jared Nickersons style….and the last one is weird with the hair going right under the eye…Rubens Scarelli is awesome tho!
man..that Angelina Jolie is fantastic!
Gradient mesh rocks!
oh, I just browsed through his DA profile
not I think its not a gradient mesh artwork..may be some kinda vector-like photo manipulation