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  • Brainstorming
  • Tracing
  • Background

This project's purpose was to get familiar and comfortable in working with the pen tool in Adobe illustrator by tracing a cartoon character. Please note that this project was for educational purposes.

  • Programs Used
  • Adobe Illustrator
A photo of the original illustration from the movie 'Demon Slayer: Infinity Train' Click the image for a bigger look!
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Inital process for this was to pick a character from a cartoon. For my project I decided to go with the promotional art of the character 'Rengoku' from the the franchise 'Demon Slayer', specifically from their movie 'Demon Slayer: Infinity Train'.

A showing of the hair being built and the layer structure in the file
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The tracing process began with sectioning off different pieces of the image into more manageable chuncks. This also took into the account of using a hierarchical layering effect to re-create the illustration due to the background of the image, casting a shadow on the character.

A before and after view of adding the shadows into the illustration

Coloring was in tandem of the tracing process as each different traced item required to be a different color. All shadows on this illustration is traced and placed in the layer hiearchy with either an opacity effect or color matching to create the shadow effects.

The illustration after completing the logo and adding it to the composition

After the completion of the character tracing, the logo was re-created and layered on top to mimic the poster.

A view of how the background was made with different brushes and custom brushes
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Finally the background was created using different brush strokes and flow rates on the brushes to create a flame effect as per the original illustration. Custom brushes were also created to create a more varied look to the flames.

The original illustration from the movie 'Demon Slayer: Infinity Train The traced illustration for version of the poster
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