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Last Call for BottlesShapes and Lines

Computer GraphicsSpring 2012

Illustrationsby ComputerGraphicsStudents

Article by VitoMartinez on hispicture o Eccolo


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Alex Lukasik

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100 Line Vessels

Shading Vessels

Value Drawings

Shape Drawings

Midterm: Museum rip

About Me

Vito Martinez

22 100 Line Drawings

26 Shading Drawings

32 Eccolo

Mike Ward

34 1970 Ford Mustang Mach 1

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For our rst assignment we had to make 5(100)

Stroke Drawings.

Craft: I used a bamboo touch pad and pen that I

borrowed from a friend, also I downloaded adobe

illustrator at home for ease of access, I used my

computer, and objects that can hold a liquid. I made

the drawings strictly out of horizontal and vertical lines

and i counted my strokes to make sure that they were

exactly 100 strokes.

Composition: I used Horizontal and vertical lines

because I wanted the viewer to see a 3 dimensional

object in a 2 dimensional eld without drawing the out

lines of the picture. I wanted to have them get a feel

for the outside of the objects almost like they were the

boundaries.

Te Beginning:Vessels100 Line Drawings

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The drink I had when i was working on this

project.

The bucket that was in my room while I was

starting my homework.

One of the drinks that I had to scavenge my

house to nd more vessels to draw.

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More Vessels:

Shading

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Color

This was a bottle that we had in class.

When I was working on this drawing I

was primarily working on the lip of the

bottle. If something didnt seem right, I

would continually go over it again.


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Craft: The tools that I used to create thedrawings were a touch pad and pen, objects

found at home and Adobe Illustrator. In Adobe

Illustrator i used the paint brush, swatch tool,

adjusted the stroke (the thickness of the

line), and I used the color picker. In the rst

3 pictures I used different values of the same

color. In the last 3 pictures I used either 1

number of 1 letter for the whole picture.

Composition: I used the different shades

of the same color so i can make it look

like its a 3 dimensional object not just at

by using shadows. I used 1 letter or 1

number so I can make it feel as if there is

texture. Also I used the shadows on the

texture drawings as well. The shadows

represent where the light hits the object.

Striped Bottle


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exture

Number 3 Vessel

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Number 5 Vessel

Out of the whole semester this is probably the

hardest thing that I had to do for the class.

We had to use one continuous stroke for the

whole picture. We used two different colors

for contrast. On the left page I used a back-ground made of 3s in different shades of

green. At rst I started with a thick stroke and

dark shade of green and as the more layers I

added on the thinner the brush stroke became

and the lighter the green became. This was

the same concept as the picture on the right

except i used 5s. I also used to same color

(green) as well. On the left picture I continued

with the 3s onto the bottle, except I used dif-

ferent shades of orange to represent the light

reecting off the bottle. The same went for the

picture on the left, but instead of orange and

instead of 3s I used yellow 5s.

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Letter A Vessel

I nally decided to switch it up. I

used different colors and even used

a letter instead of a number. I chose

A because that is the rst letter of

my name. However, even though it is

different colors and I used a letter, the

process is the same. This picture is

actually an object that I used plenty of

times throughout the magazine. It is

a bucket that i have in my room that

is normally used to store pens. Forthis project I decided to take them

out. For the bucket, I used differ-

ent shades of blue. On the left side

it has a lighter shade of blue. The

reason why it is lighter on the lefts is

because the source of light was on

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the left side of the object. It is also

lighter on the right side becausethe bucket was in the corner of my

room along with the light. the light

therefore reected off of the wall

and left the middle-right side of the

bucket the darkest spot. It also

had a lip on the top of the bucket.

Right underneath the lip, there

was a really dark shadow. This

was due to the fact that the light

could not get past the lip. I tried to

show that with the dark small lay-ers of As near the top.


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My Picture

Yep, thats Me!


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Craft: The program that I used to create this

was Adobe Illustrator. Using adobe illustra-

tor I placed a picture on the background and

locked it down. I created a new layer andstarted drawing on that layer. What I used

to draw or in other words trace, was the

pen tool. I rst started like I was building

myself from the back to the front. I started

with the back because then I could get the

basic shape down. I would create points

with the pen tool to trace the person out with

no color, then I used the eye dropper to try to

match the color the best it could. The more

shapes that I drew the more detail that there

was. After I got the shape that I like down,I then locked it in place and then made it

invisible. Since I have a programming back-

ground and like to keep things neat and easy

to read, I created many layers. For example,

I would create layers for just the shirt and

inside of the shirt I would have a layer just

for the sleeves. Having multiple layers also

made it easier to turn the shapes visibility on

and off.

Composition: I used these colors because Itried to make it as close to the picturea as I

could. I used the pen tool because I wanted

to make a tracing of a picture. The pen tool

is a great tool to use because you can zoom

in and out on the picture and get close to

the edge of the picture. I used many layers

because it allowed me to keep it organized,

especially with the amount of shapes I put

into it. The more shapes that are put in give

it a lot more detail to try to make it as accu-

rate as possible. Also with the more detailand the more layers, it makes the picture ap-

pear to be 3D, because that is how we see;

we see light reect off of objects at different

degrees and different objects which give it

different light and the shadows give it more

depth.


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race o Me

racing in Adobe Illustrator


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Craft: This is the same idea as last

week. I used Adobe Illustrator to lock

the picture in place and use the pen tool

to create shapes on top of the picture.

I also used the layers but i also used a

lot more shapes in this picture. If you

are trying to trace a picture use a pic-ture with A LOT of DATA. If you use a

picture that does not have very much

detail in it, you cannot zoom in very far

before the picture gets pixelated. When

I redid this picture I got the actual image

instead of the image off of Facebook. It

let me zoom in when I was tracing it to

get more detail and more color which

makes the image look more realistic.

Composition: I arranged the elementsthis way because i wanted to make the

picture appear as realistic as possible.

The rst thing I want the viewer to see is

the face to see how there is detail in the

teeth and the eyes and even the face.

Then I want them to move on to the shirt

and to notice that the shirt is not just one

color of blue. It is made up of multiple

shades of blue. There are shadows from

the rinkles in the shirt and there is also

a pocket which has an outline of a dif-

ferent shade of blue. and to also notice

that there is a white shirt underneath the

blue shirt. Also I want them to notice that

there are shadows. There are shadows

because that is how we see depth.

The Detail in the collar

makes it appear real


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Variations:racing o Me

Craft: Using Adobe Illustrator I took the

picture that I already had created from

Week 5 and Week 6. I created a matrix

from the picture, going left to right the

picture is normal, monochromatic and

then extreme chromatic. From top tobottom the picture is normal, subtle brush

change, and extreme brush change. Us-

ing the three different combinations of

brush strokes and color changes I made

a matrix of pictures. To change the colors

the rst thing I did was made sure all of the

layers I wanted to change were VISIBLE

AND UNLOCKED, then I selected all the

lines and shapes. If they are not visible or

unlocked they will not be selected and willnot be able to change the element. I used

the color guide and edit colors. Under

edit colors there was an option for mono-

chromatic. For the extreme chromatic the


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or blue, it created an almost cold or dark

feeling which was not what I was trying

to get across. When I chose the color

group I chose an antique style which

ended up turning like a cowboy or a

western style. The brushes did not turnout so well, since there were so many

small shapes it kinda of blurred the im-

age. Since the brushes literally crashed

the program, I was not able to do very

much with the brush stroke.

rst thing I did

was change the

color group in thecolor guide win-

dow. Then I went

in and edited the

colors. To change

the brush stroke,

I opened up the

brushes win-

dow. I just picked

what I considered

a subtle brush

change and alsoan extreme brush

change. This was

extremely difcult

for the computer. Since there were so

many shapes and lines in the picture, it

was a big le and needed a lot of pro-

cessing power. However, Im pretty sure

we pushed the program to its limits.

Composition: The assignment was to cre-

ate a matrix of changes in chromatic and

changes in brush stroke, so this is mostly

why I set it up this way. However for the

middle pictures I chose red because it

seemed to t the picture. When I tested it

out with many other colors such as green


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Dierent Variatons o Subtle and Extreme BrushChanges with the original colors.


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Dierent Variatons o Extreme Brush Changeswith monochromatic and extremechromatic.


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LumberjackWestern Look


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Matrix o Me


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Te Start o Bro. Vito Martinez OFM Cap.s work

Surprisingly this pictures has come up in

conversation with vito. He claims that it is

his Dr. Pepper that he drinks while he is

doing his homework. The actual drawing is

made by 100 lines. It was the begginning of

the semester and we had to get used to us-

ing the pen and the tablet. After a while weall slowly got the hang of it. In this picture

he used curved horizontal lines for the most

part. This technique makes it clear that this

can is 3-D and that he is trying to portray it

as being round, not at.

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Coee Cup

Vertical Lines

This picture is similar to the Dr. Pepper can,

meaning that Vito used 100 lines with a 1 pt

stroke. However, This picture is made with

purely vertical lines. Which makes it when

you look at the coffee cup it makes it have a

different feel to it.

The coffee cup sketch allowed me to work

on my vertical stroke...something I already

recognize as a weakness. I actually drew

this image 3 times...this is the drawing I

chose to keep.

-Vito Martinez

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3-Candle Holder

The rst lesson of the class focused

on getting to be comfortable using a

graphic tablet for drawing. The assignment

was simple: make 5 sketches using exactly

100 strokes in each drawing. The drawings

should use long, lling strokes instead of

outlining the object.

All images were done using Adobe Illustrator

on my MacBook Pro. To become more fa-

miliar with this skill, I bought an inexpensive

WACOM graphic tablet to outside of class.

The top drawing is of a 3-stemmed candle

holder. I used this image as the thumbnail

because I felt the most comfortable drawing

this object. Using a graphic tablet takes prac-

tice, and this image felt uid. The drawing uses

both vertical and horizontal lines to represent

the rectangular edges on the base. A 2pt brush

was used.

-Vito Martinez

Vito Martinez 100 Stroke Drawings (Continued)


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Single Candle Holder

Hexagonal Vase

The hexagonal vase proved to be a tough

image to draw for two reasons. First, it

used vertical strokes exclusively. Second,

the shape of the object presented some

issues Id not foreseen...issues in the

fact that I am not a artist and I could not

sufciently render the dimensions of theobject. In its defense, the vertical strokes

felt more uid in this drawing.

-Vito Martinez


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Vitos Value Drawings

Coee Mug


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This is where we get introduced to value

drawings, and here is vitos attempt at

using different shades of the same color. He

used a range from gray to white. The purpose

of doing this is because human beings see

with objects by perceiving light. The different

reection of light gives us different colors and

also depth. The different shades of the color

forces your eyes to go in different places.

I used a ceramic mug with the light almost di-

rectly above the object and slightly to the right.

It sat on a slightly reective surface which

produced different shadowing effects. Theobject was rendered with a 2pt brush, then a 5

pt brush was used to cover the extra negative

space. A small 1pt brush was used to render

the thin shadow lines. The ceramic salt shak-

ers octagonal shape created a unique series

of shadows that proved challenging to render.

A 2pt brush was used to render the object. The

light source was a lamp without the shade 45

degrees above and right of the object. Finally

the bottom right, the expresso cup. This ob-

ject was unique for two reasons: I used a 1pt

brush to render the drawing, and I positioned

the cup in such a way that I looked down on

the vessel. I regular lamp was used for the

light. A 1pt brush left a lot of negative space

as I drew, so I used fast, vigorous strokes to

draw the lines.

-Vito Martinez


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Vitos Value Drawings

For week three of our Computer Graphics

class, we were given two different tasks.

The rst was to make three drawings using

values of color to render an image. The sec-

ond task was to move away from line strokes

and use a letter or number to create an image.

All images were made using Adobe Illustrator

and a Bamboo graphic tablet. All images were

completed on my Mac Book Pro.

This piece was a rendering of a bottle of

laundry detergent. The image was constructed

with thick, horizontal lines to quickly dene

the boundaries of the object. Five different

hues were used to represent the visual effect

of lighting on the object. This piece uses a

variety of different lines. The main body of the

work was drawn with a thick brush, giving the

appearance of a smooth plastic surface. Small

lines, both vertical and horizontal, were used to

represent the highlights on the bottle. Smooth,

thin lines represent the screw-off lid. Combined

with different hues, this give the appearance of

a clear, plastic surface.

-Vito Martinez

Laundry Detergent


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This is a wine bottle. A small brush was exclu-

sively used, using both horizontal and vertical

lines. The size of the brush shows the lines as

well as the negative space, giving the appear-

ance of a wire or wicker construction. A black

box lies behind half of the image. The box

draws the eyes of the view through its con-

trast to the white, as well as emphasizing the

blue of the bottle.

-Vito Martinez

I met Vito in a Computer Science class last

semester. I have really gotten to know Vito and

the type of work that he does. As you can see

in these pictures Vito puts more than enough

effort in everything that he does, whether it is a

website or drawing pictures on the magazine or

even the magazine that he made.


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Vitos exture Drawings

Water Bottle made o 3s

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D-Cup or -Cup? A green background was used to rep-resent this half-image of a tea cup on

a saucer. This piece uses a variety of

stroke widths in order to form the render-

ing. Thick D strokes were used on the

surface of the cup to give the appear-

ance of a clear and reective surface.Very small Ds are used to represent

the highlights and different values of red

on this image.

-Vito Martinez

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Look Closely


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Mike Wards1970 Ford Mustang Mach 1

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As you can see, Mike Ward loves

cars. He created this picture similarto the way I created the picture of

myself. He used Adobe Illustrator to

rst place a picture on to the canvas.

After the pictures is in place it can be

locked down without moving. After

that, it comes down to how much work

you want to put into the picture. It de-

pends on the work because the per-

son creating the picture creates each

shape of the different images and

pictures that they see. It is created by

zooming in and out multiple times. I

chose to put this picture in my maga-

zine because I have seen the original

picture and how realistic it actually

looks. He uses a tremendous amount

of detail to emphasize the curves on

the car. The different shades of the

color orange shows that it is actually a

three-dimensional object. Even going

to the rims, they actually look like theyare made out of crome, even though

I know that it is made by him zooming in and

out while tracing many shapes and setting

them as different colors. What I nd fascinat-

ing about this picture is that this is really not

the true background. This car is actually on

a show oor. He basically free handed the

background to make it look as if it really was

on a race track.

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A Sunday on La GrandeJatte


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When I went to the art

museum there was one

painting that stood out

to me and that I con-

sider the masterpiece,

A Sunday on La Grande

Jatte. This picture stood

out to me because of theconcept. When you are

far away from the picture

you see the objects in it

clearly, however when

you get closer the objects

become less clear. That

is because the picture

is made up of small

horizontal brush strokes

and dots which is now

referred to as pointillism.

In a way this picture reminds

me a lot of Adobe Illustrator

and the things that we did this

semester. The rst thing that

we did this semester was draw

objects with horizontal lines, and then we

did the tracing picture, obviously he didnt

trace this picture, but in reference to how

we view the painting reminds me of the

tracing painting we did. When you arefar away everything is clear and when we

had to add small shapes and objects we

zoomed in, where it became less clear,

which is exactly why it reminds me of

adobe illustrator. Looking at the picture it

makes you really think about it, in a way it

has an enormous amount of detail but in

the exact same way it has no detail at all.

It has detail because it has all the people,

Proo Tat I went to the Museum

the shape of the people are seen perfectly, he

has trees in the picture and even shadows.

However, one thing is something that I notice

right away, the eyes do not have detail or just

not even there. Which I feel is if I were therewhen this painting was being painted, would

be almost the way I would see the people as

well. Looking anywhere, the rst thing you

would see in a person would be their body;

the shape of their body and the colors of not

only their cloths but their skin as well. Which

maybe this was exactly how he visualized it,

which is brilliant in its own way.

My eacher, Nathan Peck, afer a rough night he stillwalked circles around us.


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For my girlriend

Photo taken by BooPeas Photography byAmanda Lynn(My Sister)

This is my girlfriend, the person who I talk to

and spend most of my time with. So I only

decided that it would be fair to put her in the

magazine. Somehow she still decides to stick

by my side.

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CreditsImages By:

Me: Alex Lukasik


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Vito Martinez

Mike Ward


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