Graphic Design Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for Graphic Design professionals, students, and enthusiasts. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
I love this artwork and would like to understand how it was created:
Some looks hand-drawn. For example the shading on the bottom of the bird and in the moon's craters. Some looks like vector artwork. For example the sun's shape and the clouds.
Perhaps there's a way to do the "hand-drawn charcoal-like" shading in Photoshop. Using this for the shading and Illustrator for the shapes is my best guess. Any thoughts on how this artwork was created?
Lots of illustrations start hand drawn. They're often then scanned in and traced (auto trace or by hand) into an illustration program such as Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape.
The textures then get added at the end, often in Adobe Photoshop.
Google 'photoshop and textures' and you'll find dozens of tutorials. Here's a silly one but explains the concept fairly succinctly:
layer masking. Everything in the image is a combination of a shape, a mask, a watercolor texture, and occasionally a stroke.
For the moon craters I would use a radial gradient from transparent to black cut out a small section of it and stick it under the hole I wanted on a layer above it. I could grunge that a bit with a brush set to erode at a lowered opacity.
The same would apply for the bottom of the bird. Cloud vectors and brushes are available for download all over the internet as are sun shaped ones.
The sun could be created in minutes only using the marquee rotate and fill tools in photoshop
A texture has been applied to the whole image.
Sketching and Illustrator. The sun is made with gradient which is quite the easiest part here.
For example text looks like 3d but it's made with stroke and border line.
Example clouds were made once and for background they were copied and they just changed opacity so clouds look that they are also behind.
As someone said texture is applied to whole image.
