Found this around the interwebs and thought I’ll share, hilarious!
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As promised, the mini-tutorial / reference about how my blog’s mascot, the cute robot I-404 a.k.a. “Eye” was born. If you’re looking for detailed tutorial about how to do digital painting of a robot like I-404, you might not find everything you would like to see here, because I won’t cover the whole process in details, but I’ll show you my workflow and how everything was put together.
Small disclaimer, before we start — I’m also a beginning illustrator, I mean, I always drawn something on paper, but just recently I started to digitalize my works, so if you’re a illustrator with experience and want to give me some tips on how to improve my workflow or the tools I use, feel free to drop me a line in the comments. Thanks in advance!
Grasp the idea
The idea behind I-404 was simply getting a mascot for the site, just to put some more life than just plain text in it. The I-404 is the robot which tells you when you gone wrong way on my blog and allows you to go back where you were before or suggests you the different exit. I-404 is currently visible only on the ‘File not found’ page, but I hope to incorporate him here and there in my blog’s layout so you can get familiar with him.
I wanted it to be a robot, because I simply love robots. I love the whole idea of anthropomorphic androids that will be dedicated to help people where they can’t help themselves. As a kid I watched Star Wars and Stargate with my father, who’s a science-fiction geek since when I remember. As a teenager I read enough S-F novels by P. K. Dick, S. Lem etc. not to b influenced by futuristic visions of androids. Also, robots have become a big part of popculture around us and we can’t help it. That’s why I decided a robot will be an icon of my site.
Since I’m working more as a consultant on the project in my company lately, because the basic design is done and they just need me here or there to finish something up and my univ schedule is less tight, I have some free time to focus on my private side projects and sometimes just to simply play with Photoshop and do something just for fun. “Lift Me Up” is a new wallpaper I’ve done in my free time as a practice of creating photo manipulations using light effects in Photoshop.
I tried to keep it in glossy-and-cheesy-yet-trendy 80s mood, with light explosions, light beams and blocky typography. I spent quite a few hours on preparing this image and I’m quite satisfied with the results. Of course, it could be touched-up a bit here and there, but I like the overall effect and the fact that I’ve achieved what I wanted to learn – how to play with light in Photoshop using layer effects, selection effects, brushes and dodge&burn tools.
Hope you like it, feedback welcome as always.
Edit: I want to have my readers’ opinion – do you want to have a tutorial how to create a photo-manipulation like that, you don’t want or do you simply don’t care? Let me know in the comments, Twitter or whatever you find suits you best.
