gloat time

since i'm on this image spree, i'd like to show off some work i've been doing recently.





(don't be fooled: if you see a texture in the black of the above two images, i can't claim anything for it. it's got some weirdness to do with the file as it uploaded... i like it, for sure, it looks great. but it was not intentional and i am not that cool. imagine them with flat black fill: that's how cool i am.)

this is a technique that a fellow art student taught me a few years ago. he called it rotoscoping, but after a little reasearch i'm not positive that's precisely what i'm doing. my technique takes a photograph and traces over it using adobe illustrator, photoshop's forgotten yet prettier sister), creating areas of color value. but, i think rotoscoping is more in reference to animation, everything from snow white to a scanner darkly, apparently, and i'm not sure what i do fits under that umbrella. the text-based one is really my little pride and joy: it actually spells "mere" from top to bottom, if you look really closely for the "r" section.

after seeing this little collection, my friend mary kate asked if could do one of her. of course! i said, just give me a little time.