My Jimi....

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SoapMakesUTaller
SoapMakesUTaller Posts: 230
edited April 2009 in The Art Wall
Very famous pic of the great Jimi Hendrix.....used charcoal and smooth bristol paper. He appears to be having a cigarette there. ;)

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  • Fifthelement
    Fifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,965
    Excellent job!
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  • wolfbear
    wolfbear Posts: 3,965
    You're very talented! :)
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  • eMMI
    eMMI Posts: 6,262
    wow. very very cool. nice job with the smokey bit too!
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  • SoapMakesUTaller
    SoapMakesUTaller Posts: 230
    Thanks you guys! I turned it in last night and people wouldn't leave it alone.....they started smuding it a bit. Have to fix it now and apply sprayfix to clean it up.

    Pesky fellow students! Anyway, I think I may start doing more and more charcoal drawings, these are fun to do...Eddie might be next!
  • 395486pj10
    395486pj10 Posts: 95
    Absolutely amazing. Beautifully rendered.
  • SoapMakesUTaller
    SoapMakesUTaller Posts: 230
    Here's the original pic....I have more charcoal drawings, just need to scan them. Will do sometime soon!

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  • civ_eng_girl
    civ_eng_girl Posts: 2,001
    i meant to reply to this before... great work! really well done :)

    i'm fairly sure if i tried to use charcoal it would turn out as a large smudge! it's tough!! :D
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  • i like matt.c
    i like matt.c Posts: 1,122
    Wow! That's awesome.:):)
  • SoapMakesUTaller
    SoapMakesUTaller Posts: 230
    I did these on Adobe Illustrator....

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  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    The Jimi is godly..

    Adobe Illustrator? Sorry for the stupid question, how does that work?
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  • SoapMakesUTaller
    SoapMakesUTaller Posts: 230
    keeponrockin wrote:
    The Jimi is godly..

    Adobe Illustrator? Sorry for the stupid question, how does that work?

    It's very simple....but it takes time to get down.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Illustrator

    You can make incredibly high quality images such as :

    Illustrator_CS3_Mac.png

    You basically make shapes, and add text, shade, color, depth to the pic. This is an industry standard program, but it takes a long time to master.....like photoshop.

    This is the program used to make t-shirts, hats, or the decals people put on cars. That Eddie pic, I could turn into any one of those if I wanted to. That's what made me laugh about all those people buying the Into The Wild t-shirts for 30 bucks at the show. It took someone literally like an hour to do the design on Adobe Illustrator, they handed the file to a t-shirt maker, they were pressed and sold for about a 3-4000% profit. Since those are just black shirts that cost a dollar or two.
  • Snake
    Snake Posts: 2,605
    Thats one of my favorite pictures of Jimi. Awesome work man!
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  • SoapMakesUTaller
    SoapMakesUTaller Posts: 230
    I'm working on another Jimi....It's a stamp project. Found some sources, pieced them together in photoshop to make 1 solid fram, and this is where I am so far in Adobe Illustrator.

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  • brokenarrow
    brokenarrow Posts: 478
    SoapMakesUTaller wrote:
    I'm working on another Jimi....It's a stamp project. Found some sources, pieced them together in photoshop to make 1 solid fram, and this is where I am so far in Adobe Illustrator.

    HerreraH-wk06-pr02.jpg



    Nice!!! I would buy those stamps! ;)
  • SoapMakesUTaller
    SoapMakesUTaller Posts: 230
    Forgot to post the finished product...

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  • brokenarrow
    brokenarrow Posts: 478
    SoapMakesUTaller wrote:
    Forgot to post the finished product...

    HerreraH-wk07-pr01-1.jpg


    I LOVE it!!! :D
  • Brisk.
    Brisk. Posts: 11,578
    Good Lord

    Incredible!
  • Fifthelement
    Fifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,965
    Awesome!
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  • SoapMakesUTaller
    SoapMakesUTaller Posts: 230
    Thank you so much you guys! I had a pleasure doing it....I think the idea is half the battle with these things. I think I'm going to keep posting my stuff here, hopefully you can see improvement.

    I've always wanted Jimi Hendrix on a stamp.....if Elvis got one, Jimi should be next! He's an american icon after all! :)
  • Julien
    Julien Posts: 2,457
    awesome ! good job !
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