So I took off from work yesterday and got bored so I decided to spend some time working on Illustrator which I haven't touched in like 10 years. It all started when one of the companies I worked with lost the raw image files for their logos and I was tasked to recreate them. I grabbed an image and pretty much re-drew it line by line to come up with an extremely high resolution image that could be used to reprint on stickers, pamphlets truck snickering, etc. I decided to grab a pic of one of my AR's and see what it come out looking like. Let me know what you think.

 

Started off with this image

 

Then I started drawing, tracing each component one by one starting with this...

 

Then this...

 

To this...

 

And finally this...

 

Here is the entire trace overlaid on top of the original pic...

 

Next step is to color everything in, then possibly massaging it a little in Photoshop. Will post an update soon. This one took about 8 hours to complete because of all the detail. I think I might start doing some other firearms as well. Pistols look a lot more simple to do. Thanks for looking!

Wow, that's wicked cool.  I wish I could do that.  How long did that take to do?

 

On the black, you cannot notice the lines but on the FDE section, you can definitely notice it.  It actually sort of pops.  The FDE section of the gun actually looks like it was a drawing in some anime.

Very good Jorge.... Illustrator is one of my fav graphics software...

And now you need a 3-d printer..

Wow, that's wicked cool.  I wish I could do that.  How long did that take to do?

 

On the black, you cannot notice the lines but on the FDE section, you can definitely notice it.  It actually sort of pops.  The FDE section of the gun actually looks like it was a drawing in some anime.

 

This one took about 8 hours start to finish but only because i wanted to be extremely detailed with every component. I can blow up the pic and export it in an extremely high resolution. Just wait until I color fill the image, it'll look a lot better. Here are some others that I did way back when....

 

Optimus Prime

 

Thundercats

I am a Graphic Designer and I wanted to tell you that you did a very nice job with that sketch!

A little FDE action

 

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What is different on this version? Again, great job on this illustration!

Very cool! I've always wished I'd taken the time to learn how to really USE Illustrator. Some very cool things can be done!

that looks sick

Almost done...

 

Finally!

 

Original:

 

Drawing:

 

Now, onto the next...