Design Process of Phoenix Illustration
March 23rd, 2007 Filed in: Design, Tricks & Tips Jump to comments
Numbers of people have asked me how to do the phoenix illustration on my site. Was it vector? Did I use Illustrator or Photoshop? Well, here I will tell you my design process from concept sketch to final illustration. Hope you will find this useful.
1. Concept Sketch
Like most other designers, I like to brainstorm and sketch out my ideas.
2. Research
Then I will go to Google image search to get design inspiration. Notice the color theme used on my site is very similar to the images that I found?
3. Tracing
Normally I will do a fine sketch and import it in Illustrator for tracing purpose. Check out my Illustrator vector tracing tutorial. Here I experimented with different color variation.
4. Illustrator Files
Here are the Illustrator files that I traced from sketches. These vector illustrations then imported into Photoshop for composition.
5. Effects
I used Photoshop to add FX effects like: rainbow, glow, particles, and gradient. One of the frequently asked questions is how to do the particles effect on the tails and flowers. To make the particles, just set the layer’s blending mode to "dissolve".
6. Final
Here is the final illustration. Download the full size wallpaper.
March 31st, 2007 at 6:38 am
Good Job!
March 31st, 2007 at 1:29 am
真厉害.高水平
March 30th, 2007 at 8:38 am
Excellent, This is the noble inspiration like ours (beginer designers). Thank you very much for giving very useful information and thanks a lot.
March 30th, 2007 at 3:21 am
That’s great -
I tried but i didn’t succed but now i know how you did it .
Awesome!!!
Cheers
Steve
AudioChroma.com
March 29th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Nice work. Keep it up
March 29th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
thanks a lot for this great tutorial, i hope i can ever make anything like this. For beginners i found a great illustrator tutorial, it’s great for your pen-tool skills ;) http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Cartoon-Birds/20573
March 29th, 2007 at 8:47 am
Hi!:)
Congratulations on the amazing blog & talent you have, this tutorial has been most enlighting, thank you so much for posting it, thanks to this and the other ones in this site I am beggining to understand Illustrator.
Thanks again!
March 29th, 2007 at 4:30 am
Hi, Thank you for your inspirations! Peace
March 28th, 2007 at 5:15 am
test
March 28th, 2007 at 4:36 am
En effet, même moi je me suis posé la quetions en ce qui concernait le procédé de cette mise en harmonie, j’ai maintenant une reponse :) !
Bonne continuation