Another Vector Illustration

This work was loosely based on a photo taken by a friend. I was going to stick to it and include what she was wearing, including her hair which i was going to make blue. It happened by accident that I made her hair white – and surprisingly it worked! I’m happy with the turn it took. It’s such a stark, simple contrast to her face which is where i wanted most of the attention to be anyway. I really think it brings out the face. Compared to my last work of Jen it’s taken more of an abstract/art turn rather than just imitating a photo. I love both, but i love the simplistic illustrative style – perhaps I’ll do more illustrations along these lines.

I used Illustrator CS6 to create this.

© Kimberley Sutherland

Vector Illustration

My first vector illustration of the lovely Jen, who has her own fantastic Babbleworthy blog. Please check out her fantastical writings and commentary of tv series.

I am super happy with the way this turned out. I love the pop art feel of it. I think i will create more faces. I think my first fascination with this style was seeing it in a couple of movies  – Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly. I never really thought of attempting it myself but I saw other graphic designers creating similar work and I thought “that looks amazing, and I can totally do that”. So here it is! Enjoy.