Back in February, I posted about a technique I called “sketch-to-vector” where I use Photoshop to freehand draw illustrations then copy them into Illustrator and convert the lines to vector. The poster I ran through in the outlined process was actually the second time I had used the technique, the first being a series of new fox character sketches for SUMO’s new “help other users” section of their website.
The thoughts around the character were to show Kit (don’t hurt the web/Test pilot) as an older fox, now with an superhero alter ego for saving the Web. His style turned out to be an evolution of some of the sketching I had done when designing our new mascot.
Five poses were created for the different pages in SUMO’s get involved section – introduction, army of awesome, knowledge base, forums, localization. It wasn’t the easiest task to come up with visual metaphors for the sections, but after some quick jamming with the team I was able to start in on the artwork.
I really love sketching on the Cintiq and the quality of line that comes from the pencil tools I have in Photoshop. I’m quite happy with the raw drawings so I decided to release a few as some fun wallpapers. Hope you like them. Enjoy!