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Stage 1 – Photoshop
I set out offering a range of poses for the snow leopard, chosen three can be seen below.
Stage 2 – Illustrator
I then moved on to transferring the chosen sketch into vector. Starting with tracing the concept and filling in with solid colours.
Stage 3 – Illustrator
Now we come to add in the detail work using illustrator. I knew I was running a final pass through Photoshop so I kept the detail pretty minimal, adding rough texture to the fangs, highlights to the body, head and tail.
Stage 4 – Back to Photoshop
After Illustrator I took the image back into Photoshop to add the final details such as whiskers, spot detail and eye highlights.
Final Result
Posted Saturday, Jun 5th, 10
May 30th, 2009 at 12:03 am
Love it! Would be nice to see a black one too…
June 4th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Love this design! How did you go about creating it?
June 11th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Could you do a tutorial on going about creating an image like this? Did you base it on something or just from your head?
June 11th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
@Peter: After your comments I have added a couple of stages to show how I went about creating the Leopard. Hope you enjoy!
June 25th, 2009 at 1:10 am
thats my first visit to your site
you r amazing
this one so beutiful
July 17th, 2009 at 9:15 am
its amazing
I love illustration
September 12th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Nice work, mate. Illustrator is something I’d definitely like to check out and start using.
September 18th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
This is apsolutely AMAZING! So inspireing.
December 7th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
this one looks really nice :) good work you are very talented and inspirational :)
January 20th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
Wow! Truly and inspiration! I love it and your website. Way to go!
February 17th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
cool stuff, very simple. I usually hesitate when it comes to drawing, not that i cant draw, but this motivates me to do more of that.
Concerning the whiskers, you could have still done that in illustrator by creating a custom brush….in fact the Photoshop stuff could all have been done in Illustrator. I think its much more effective that way, so it can all be coupled under one scalable vector file. Regardless still nice.
May 18th, 2010 at 9:55 am
Thanks a lot for this beautiful tutorial…
July 31st, 2010 at 9:33 am
brilliant gift Rob! Love all ur designs!