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Christina Rivera is the senior production artist for Access Lane, a company specialized in the creation of custom themes, graphics, and apps for handheld mobile devices. She's had over ten years of experience with programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and the fractal generation program Apophysis. Please visit her gallery at DeviantArt to see more examples of her works.

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Vectors Imitate Life with Gradient Mesh

Friday, October 30, 2009

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When an artist is given a choice about creating a photo-realistic image on the computer, their first instinct would be to turn to any of the raster-based image editors, such as Photoshop. However, what if they were told that they needed to create this photo-realistic image in a vector-based image editor? Amazingly enough, with the advent of the "gradient mesh" feature, the creation of a photo-realistic image is completely doable in Adobe Illustrator.

Create a 3D Vector Labyrinth

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

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A Square Foundation Let’s start off by creating a new document that’s 1024×768. Name this first layer “Maze.” Then, take the Rectangle tool and draw a 50×50 square. Give this square a 10px black outline and no fill. Then align it to the center of the canvas. Repeat this process, only this time make the square [...]