Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Compositions that combine both photographic and illustrative elements are often popular among graphic designers. Today, we will demonstrate how to combine these elements to create a vintage squid illustration. Lets get started!
Resources Used
The following resources were used during the production of this tutorial.
Paper Texture
Old Photo
Bay Photograph
Step 1
Alright lets get started with this tutorial! The first thing we need is a base image to use as our background for which the character will be drawn onto, (for this tutorial I took a nice shot of the bay the other day and I think it will do just fine). Now keep in mind the perspective, angles and depth of the photo since anything we draw has to match those angles as to create the illusion successfully.
Step 2
After you have selected the image youre going to use, go ahead and print it out; 8
