4th Review: Colin Elgie

Colin Elgie is an illustrator who specializes in a decorative and graphic style. His arresting images have added panache to numerous book titles, magazines and packaging designs.
His extensive list of past clients includes a host of well-known companies, publishers and household brands.
Colin usually sketches his ideas traditionally to produce roughs, then executes the final artwork on a Mac, using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

The first image is vector drawing of an roman warrior created by Colin. The simple lines and lack of detail give this piece an cartoon/word art sort of feel. Personally seems a very short piece of work. The colours to me a very bleek and the lack of detail in my opinion comes from how thick some of the lines are.


While on the other hand:

This piece is incredible because the colours are so mesmerizing. The 3D values show different ways of transport infront of an city landscape background. The vector work is outstanding, the shading is simplistic yet works with the shapes. It gives the feel as a representation of evolution using transport.






Another great piece of artwork with vectoring:

Here this piece shows how the composition of different colour tones in the work can fit together. The background shows a very sunset/misk night. Yet the shine and reflection of the lighting on the car shows otherwise. The spot on details of the car must have taken some time and patience. The whole image gives the feel of the 50s and drive in movies. I like this the most because of the greater use in detail and colours.