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Adone Creative Residency Community Fund 2020

I’m really excited to be a 2020 Adobe Recipient for the Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund Projects for 2020 #adoberesidency and thrilled to be part of the Adobe Illustrator BETA team for Adobe Illustrator on the iPad #illustratoronipad

Concept for my personal project:

Batman fan art poster, size AO.

To celebrate 80 Years of the Batman (2019). 80 Years of the Joker (2020) and the birth of Adobe Illustrator on the iPad (2019/2020). I took the comic cover Batman #251 - The Jokers Five-Way Revenge! released by DC Comics on September 1973 and turned it into a modern digital version with a twist.

The original cover had The Joker holding an Ace playing card with Batman on it.

So I changed this to The Joker holding an iPad (modern technology) with Batman imprisoned inside, but showing Batman smashing his way out of the iPad. By using a variety of techniques, tools in Adobe Illustrator for the iPad.

Also added more characters from Batman.

E.g. Catwoman (80 Years-2020) and Harley Quinn.

Sketch to line art (black & white), grey version and then colour.

Tools Used:

Tools panel:

Pen
Pencil
Selection Tool
Direct Selection Tool
Creating swatches
Saving swatches
Eyedropper tool
Gradients

Object panel:

Make Clipping Mask

Properties panel:

Transform
Appearance (opacity)

Combine Shapes panel:

Shape Builder
Combine All
Divide All
Convert to Path

Edit panel:

Copy
Paste

Align panel:

Alignment
Flip

Type panel:

Outline Type

I thought ...

it fitted the bill having an iPad in the scene and creating the design on the BETA version of Adobe Illustrator on iPad.

Congratulations to Adobe Illustrator for inspiring myself and others who express their feelings and aspirations through the love of art and design using the power of Adobe Illustrator on the iPad #illustratoronipad #adoberesidency

my original sketch

My Original Sketch

my original sketch

Line Art

Screen recording of design process

Sketch to line art to grey to full colour

Sketch to Line Art (Black & White) to Grey to Full Colour

details

Three Close up Colour Sections

outline view

Illustrator's Outline Mode

4in1 view

Step Process

grey (noir) version

Grey (Noir) Version

final full colour

Final Full Colour Version

poster-mockup

Mock up of the design for Poster

Tee Shirt

Mock up of the design for Tee Shirt

Jokers Playing Card

For the front of the playing card I took some elements from the poster design, for the back design I used the new Grid Repeat tool that's in the Adobe Illustrator for iPad.

Screen recording of design process

joker playingcard

Jokers Playing Card

HA HA HA! The Jokers Pattern

Using the new Radial and Grid Repeat to create a pattern.

Screen recording of design process

joker-pattern

Joker Pattern using Radial and Grid Repeat

joker-pattern