In the latest installment of Monkey & Bird, the talented Tina G worked some of her raster and vector magic in both Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. I needed a label for our baboon’s bottle of booze so she did a little research on liquor labels and cooked up the image above. Of course, during the creation of the final art, most of Tina’s handiwork was obscured by shadows. That’s why I posted it up above in all of its clear and unshaded glory!
I created the bottle in Illustrator using that program’s 3D Revolve option.
Screenshot of Adobe Illustrator CS3
With this method, I only had to draw the bottle once and duplicate it as many times as needed. I was able to rotate each duplicate separately as well. Poof! – instant armload of bottles for my cartoon baboon.
Cheating? If I was drawing the bottle by hand, I would have hauled out the rulers, French curves and ellipse templates. I see this as being the same thing. It’s drafting or mechanical drawing.
Tina also created the wallpaper being that retro patterns are her specialty She built the pattern in Illustrator, and I imported it into Photoshop.
