This week I got my inspiration for my project from the word "wheel". This was an Illustration Friday word a week ago. I drew this image because when I thought of the word, I thought of my Grandpa who used to drive a horse and covered wagon at a boys camp many years ago. My plan for this image is to create a farm sign or logo.
I have finished my farm sign for my inspiration word "Ocean". After creating the horseshoe on Illustrator, I used a stock picture and did some color corrections on Photoshop. Then I placed my horseshoe in a Photoshop document and positions the picture into to centre. Then using the pen tool I created a mask on the picture to fit it into the horseshoe. After, I used the blur tool at the top of the picture to make it blend better. Then I saved it and reopened it in Illustrator to place the text and add some effects. Then, once again, opened it in Photoshop and place a wood background and set the opacity of the wood image to 9% and I put the "farm sign" image opacity to %97 just so we could see the texture of the wood through the sign.
This is my vector horseshoe in progress for my farm sign that was inspired by Illustration Friday's word "Ocean".
I am building my vector art in Adobe Illustrator.
In my background layer I place my picture of my horseshoe drawing. Then with the pen tool, on another layer I traced over my image. After I created two other layers. One for the bottom of the shoe, and the other for the shadow behind the shoe. Then I deleted my background image, as it was not needed anymore.
I am a member of Illustration Friday and last weeks word was "Ocean".
I chose to create a sign for a horse farm in Turks and Caicos that takes people on horse back riding adventures along the ocean and in the ocean.
As I complete this illustration I will use vector art to create a horse shoe and put a horse and rider swimming in the ocean in the shoe.
