Next Poster, Klein

[Skynet]

I fancy doing a Klein poster.

I'm going to do this one differently, I'm just going to use the pen tool and flat colours (not sure I can get away doing that for the frame fade yet). Makes sense for anyone who uses Illustrator or Photoshop, means nothing to anyone else.

I'm using Illustrator. You start by drawing the basic basic shape, normally a number of them, then with the pen tool you break it down in to different areas of colour and dark & light. For each part you use Pathfinder Divide and then Ungroup to create new sub-shapes.

You keep doing that and you end up with a load of shapes that you then fill with a solid colour, no gradients etc. Each of the shapes you make is a called a path.

So the cable hanger took 127 paths. Shame I decided it's the wrong one so didn't completely finish it :facepalm: As with many paintings you need to stand back from it, or zoom out if on screen.

I could do the whole thing as one big picture but think I'll create all the main parts separately and put them together at the end. Don't really want to work with hundreds of layers.

I'll add pics of the parts as I complete them in case anyone's interested.

 

[Retro Spud]

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I love to have a go at that, if you lived closer I'd be inviting myself round

 

[stewlewis]

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I'll keep an interested eye on this, love to play with PS and AI. I like the cleanliness of vectors.

 

[Skynet]

It's quite a bit of work but I had a practice on small things like bolts. Nice shiny ones with plenty of contrast makes it easier to start with.

If you're using Illustrator here's a bit more detail, don't think you can easily do it in Photoshop.

Top pic is your main outline using the pen, stroke but no fill. Black's not always a good idea for the colour, something like magenta shows up on mostly everything.

Then you draw a line to split that shape, again no fill, making sure to go past the edges of the shape you're splitting. Then select both the shape to split and the split line and do a Pathfinder>Divide and Object>Ungroup (make an action for this).

That has split the shape in to two whole paths that you can fill (obviously you normally have to do a lot more splits). You either Select(V) the path to fill and choose from the colour palette or use the eyedropper (I) to pick the colour from a reference photo.

You often have to fine tune after colouring, split things up more, easiest way is to swap fill colour to stroke colour, spilt then swap back.

 

[Skynet]

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Pedal. Not got a set of DX/XT's here and can't find any head on shots, so made up from pics taken from other angles. So might need tweaking. Will just duplicate, flip and alter some details for the other side.

 

[Skynet]

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Brakes, the tyres will cover much of the inner so didn't do any detail on the inside and didn't really need to do the whole pad. One still needs adjusting so they're not identical.

 

[Skynet]

Brake cable, might need to lighten it a bit, will see.

 

[minor_LEGEND]

some cool art there.

I bet a section of a wheel, rim, nipples & spokes maybe tyre sidewall could look cool.

 

[Skynet]

Thanks, Just doing the separate bits and will put it all together at the end. Well that's the plan. Have made a start on the frame, no where near finished yet though.

 

[Skynet]

Need to try and add the tiny text and a few highlights once it's all put together.

Edit: Added the small text, no idea what it says below "Shimano Total Integration" but it's so small it doesn't really matter. If someone does know though...