How to illustrate a bow § The Adventures of Cindy Li

How to illustrate a bow

December 6 , 2005 1 comment

Drawing…

The requirement was to have a ribbon packaging background.
I created the ribbon by taking a picture of a bow I made.

Photo of a bow

Then you start outlining the shape in Illustrator or Photoshop. I used photoshop in this case since it wasn’t that complicated.

Photo of a bow outlined

Then I added gradient shading to the bow.

Photo of a bow with shading

The final design…with the bow:

Final Bow

Note the bow is around 80k

Optimized Bow

Bow at 28k

Note the bow is under 28k (requirement) the bow is blurred in the middle to reduce and by the time the page loads over it looks like it is a progressive loading graphic to the user.

Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 01.41 pm

Lena

This is very helpful for me because i usually never use the gradient tool. Am i late or what? haha

Your site is very inspirational to me, Cindy! :D

The Adventures of Cindy Li