Art Lesson: How to render 3D in Illustrator CS3

Note: If you want to know how I applied gradient using Illustrator CS3, click here: How to make gradient in Illustrator CS3

I found a very, very cute site!

Cute gifs! It’s a site where you can find various gifs that you can use for your blog, or any comment box. I'm so happy I found it. I can decorate my blog with it! The moving artworks are just so cute and adorable!

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The image above is from cute gifs.

Hurray, yesterday I finished making my Adobe Illustrator CS3 tutorials!

I feel very fulfilled. I finished working on my tutorials yesterday. It took me a whole day but I wanted to make sure that my tutorial on Illustrator is as clear as possible to a beginner. After creating my first tutorial for my friends, I realized that I enjoyed it so I made another one, and I'm sure I will be making more tutorials!

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(Image is from Cute gifs)

A Sample of Line Art in Adobe Illustrator CS3 with the use of Gradient

Yesterday I posted a tutorial on how to make gradient in Illustrator CS3. Now I want to share a sample of my art work using gradient in Illustrator CS3. I wanted to use curved lines, so I chose to draw a female body. After creating the outer lines, I multiplied the lines from outside to inside, then created new lines, to emphasize some curves, and then I applied gradient, as a finishing touch, to some of the lines and got the desired look that I was aiming for. It's very easy to use Illustrator once you got the hang of it. It's a very helpful tool for you to achieve the work of art that you wanted to accomplish.

Illustrator Tutorial: How to Make Gradient in Adobe Illustrator CS3 for Your Artwork

Since people keep asking me about making gradients in Illustrator I have decided to make a tutorial of it.

If you have some questions, or in need of some clarifications, your inquiries are welcome! I'll do my best to help you. Thank you very much! Good luck with your art! :)

Here’s a step by step guide on how to make gradient in Adobe Illustrator CS3.

Art in Packaging: Enticing the Eyes and the Mind

Photo by Carmel Vilchez

I’m just thinking… a product’s packaging really does wonders. I remember when my Mom went to Singapore and bought some chocolates for us. She bought many, believe me. When we saw the packaging of each brand, in their interesting wrappers, my younger sister and I decided to take pictures of them at the rooftop, of our building, where the lighting is best (I am a food photography enthusiast, so I try to keep my camera handy when I see delicious and interesting foods). One of the products was wrapped like gold bars and the other product was shaped like merlions while yet another product had rounded chocolates wrapped in gold-colored paper. We decided to mix them all together and arrange them in interesting ways, so that when a person sees our photos they will say, to themselves, “Ah, I want to have some of those!” After our photo shoot we went back downstairs to finally taste each product. To our huge disappointment, the chocolates didn’t even taste like chocolate! They all tasted like sugar in some kind of bland mixture, except for the rounded chocolates. At least they had an outer wafer, covering the chocolate inside that’s mixed with more tiny bits of wafers. We gave most of them away to our friends. We just wanted to get rid of them because we didn’t like the taste or the texture. What’s the lesson in the story? Don’t buy foods based upon their expensive packaging. Looks can be deceiving and as they say, “You can’t tell a book by looking at its cover”. It’s no wonder that so many food producers invest so much money in their design and presentation. The packaging look luxurious while the chocolate itself tasted bland but I must say kudos to the artist behind them.

French Movie: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec

This is a French movie about a woman, Adele Blanc-Sec. She is a writer who has an old, eccentric, yet genius friend who has found a way to connect his mind beyond the barriers of death. He communicates with people who have passed on with the use of antique artifacts and art around him. Adele is looking for ways to revive her sister  who lays in a death-like catatonic state, after a fatal accident that Adele feels so guilty about. In Adele's quest for her sister’s cure, she travels to Egypt in search for the mummy of the Pharaoh Thutmose’s doctor. With the help of her eccentric friend, she tries to talk to the doctor's mind, asking him to help her revive her sister. I don’t know if the sister is really dead or not but she sure looked dead, and the only possible way to bring her back to normal is by ancient knowledge of medicine mixed with magic or supernatural power from the underworld, or from death and beyond it. The movie is a mix of sci-fi, fantasy and adventure. So, if you’re into that kind of thing, this movie is for you. Personally, though, I don’t like the story of this movie because of the theme about talking to dead people and the like. But I must admit that it’s well-written and well-executed. The visual effects and the incorporation of graphics and digital manipulation with real-life people are really noteworthy. It’s kind of a bizarre movie but it’s worth the watch, actually, and it’s for that reason I have watched this movie twice.