WATCH OWL !

My 3rd assignment for applied illustration. Took me quite some times but i enjoy the process.The original art piece is credit to Andreas Pries. His textured work amaze me alot.

Andreas Pries artwork

So i chosen 1 of his work ,trace and recreate the textured part. I gain some precious experience doing this. At 1st i thought that i could use masking to do everything ,so i use lines and shape to create something like this.

But i failed, haha .The overall file become too HEAVY and AI work really really slow. And i have to MASKING everything. 'HEADCHE' . After that i tried to use draw lines by lines, and using alt to copy it. It's quite tiring also,because every lines direction and length is different .Finally i figure out a better way which is using continuous line, follow the direction instead of drawing one by one. It fasten up the process but we just have to make sure that the line that we do not want to show out follow exactly the shape of borders.

Sometimes reference other's work and try to remake it is fun. Because we will actually surprisingly learn something that we do not know before that. Just keep exploring different kind of work and refine your own style. Take your time. Btw, they are many tiny detail parts of the owl as well, check it out :D