I love combining photos with Adobe Illustrator's drawing capabilities.
Here is a finished illustration and page design I created last March.
The story was about spring cleaning and it was for a Flipside Weekend centerpiece. The centerpiece is always a vertical shape and so my concepts for the page are to use the vertical space the best way I know how.
The illustration if you look closely are shapes that were drawn in Illustrator. Clipping paths were then used to mask the photos. Look at the woman's hair. I used a closeup photo of a woman with red hair and then created a clipping path in photoshop and imported it into my Illustrator file. The yellow pants are a pattern swatch in Illustrator. The mop head, again is a photograph. I drew the handle in Illustrator. The woman's shirt is made up of two photos that I downloaded from Fashion week. I simply drew a clipping path on the photo and placed the shape back into Illustrator.
For my current illustration I'm using a similar style by combining the use of photos and drawing parts of my illustration. The story was written by me too.
First, I did a pencil sketch of my idea. And then scanned it and placed it into Adobe Illustrator as a template.
Next, I drew over my sketch in Adobe Illustrator. I drew all the shapes using the pen tool. After I was finished drawing the shapes I then imported the shirt and pants as paths into Adobe photoshop.
I found a photo of a runway model wearing a pattern dress. I used that photo as the pattern shape of her shirt. I also had closeup image of denim and again used my imported path of the pants from the illustration as a clipping path. I went into the hue and saturation adjustments and made the patterns have a purple tone to them.
The clipping paths were then imported back into Illustrator.
Here is the almost completed illustration.
The finished illustration is scheduled to run March 26 in the York Daily Record. I will post the finished page design in the near future.
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