Additional boats designed in Vector Illustration and the start of a small wave bottom left.

  Couds drawn in Illustrator CS6 transferred to Photoshop CS6.

 Clouds were colored and enhanced in pixel form to create a soft appearence.

Placed back into Illustrator with a transparent  background.

The addition of clouds to reinforce overall composition. Clouds drawn in Illustrator CS6 enhanced in Photoshop CS6, colored & manipulated for a soft appearence

Additional large cloud bank simulates late day tropical cumulus build up.

Stars added to night sky plus Spotlights added behind clouds.

Start of construction of foreground Deco Hotel .

Vector Illustrated/w

Pen Tool to create sharp line design.

Construction of foreground Deco Hotel begins to fill in.

Pen tool used to create general shape, pathfinder used to knock out holes for vertical beam structuers.

3D applied in Illustrator to create solid form.

Vertical beams added with a multiple gradient to simulate metal texture.

Steps added to the construction with outter glow to simulate a neon appearence.

Glass deco wall placed in front of parking area was created using a 3D effect inside Illustrator CS5.

Tail fin of late 50's style Cadillac emerging from the water. Gradient meshes and reflections in the metal parts further the illusion.

Neon lighting added to central tower with hotel name.

Hotel name is typed out and given a 3D effect for angle and depth.

Also neon effect is added. All effects done in Illustrator cs6

Multiple repitition of Cadallac fins to create a sense of depth and perspective.

Last fin comes out

of the frame to support the illusion of the picture coming into the viewers space.

Background texture added with vector swirls to enhance the Deco look.

Large ceramic pots created in Illustrator 3D.

 All aspects are vector based therefore maintaining sharness no matter the scaling size.

Palm trees start to frame the scene.

Several tree variations created in vector format and modified individually.

Additional large trees  are added for balance to complete the composition.

Daylight version shows flexibillity of  individual layers to change up the scene at will.

Sky and water designed in Bryce and refined in Photoshop.

Additional clouds drawn in Illustrator and refined in Photoshop

Vector illustrated boats added with small Dels resort deep in back.

Large vector waves placed in to add energy and framing element.

Final composition

Wire frame vector outline

Vector Outline

The mural was designed in Illustrator cs6 at about 36" wide but since vector illustration was employed I was able to resize up to 36' feet by 6' feet. The image was printed in 4 foot sections and applied to the wall.

Vector Illustration

Working in Vector in a program like Adobe Illustrator cs6 is a methodical process that will take  time. However the results produce a clean line drawing rendition that is resizable and transferable to most computer output destinations. ie. Print,Websites, Flash, Smart phones, Tablets.

Use of Photoshop,InDesign and Illustrator are all cross software to allow a variety of artistic changes.

vector illustration fill

half fill and half vector lines

vector/color preview

full color