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Mischievous VenusBy Huan Tran
Huan Tran is consanly in moion. Wheher raveling he globe,exploring his Torono neighborhood, or leing his imaginaionake ligh, Huan is always on he hun or inspiraion, askingquesions, and seeing hings in new ways. His sudio, LeakingFauce, is really jus a meaphor or his own mind because likehis creaiviy, his houghs never cease.
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How I work
When I wan o ind inspiraion, I sep ouside my everyday world.Always being in my ordinary environmen can lead o ordinary ideas.
I love waching how oher people work and inerac in any siuaion.
I orces me o reac, respond, and readjus my view.
Long beore I skech anyhing, I readdelving ino my cliens
indusry, heir challenges, heir cusomersand keep asking
quesions. This passion or exploraion migh come rom my
background in compuer science and philosophy, or jus my
innae ascinaion wih learning how and why hings work.
Beore I begin any projec, I like o brainsorm conceps ha migh be
ineresing, as well as explore heir poenial o be ransormed inoan image ha can communicae hose ideas. Aer a lo o doodles,
squiggles, and noes in he margins, I evenually produce a linear
skech ha will be he blueprin or my image as I move orward.
Im drawn to vibrant,
conceptual work that plays
a lot with contrastingelements.
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Geting sared
For his projec exploring The Birth of Venus as par o my design,I was insanly drawn o he hemes o love and rouble. Love is
mischievous and advenurous, ye i oen seems o cause rouble.
One way I demonsraed his is by showing a gang o Cupids
geing ino rouble as hey escape rom he hear o Venus.
I didn wan o sop here and waned o inroduce a variey o
conrasing elemens. I am ascinaed wih conrasing ideas,
juxaposing a so and hard edge, exure versus la graphic, or
dark agains ligh.
To creae my design, I used many eaures ha were inroduced in
Illusraor CS5 as well as hose ha are new in Illusraor CS6,waning o give my work a more hand-drawn, organic eel.
Drawing all he linesVenus body is rendered in a soer, painerly way o pay homage o
he original Boicelli paining while he elemens ha luer, ly, and
swirl around her are more graphic and modern in syle.
I always like o sar an image by irs drawing all he lines. I use
varying widhs, syles, and ransparencies o ge he lines o eel
he way I wan.
The way I consruc and creae an image is hard o describe. In ac,
I can ake you hrough every hough, bu I can highligh how I do
use cerain Adobe Illusraor eaures o achieve my inal image.
I think behind the best image is an idea
that makes you thinkdo a double take
and dares you to look deeper.
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Variable widh srokesand proflesFor Venus, he seashell, and he
whale ail, I waned he lines o
eel more organic and hand drawn.
For oher lines, I waned hem o
be more mechanical and graphical
in naure. For he more organic
lines, I applied one o he deaul
widh proiles in Illusraor CS6
on my sroke, and hen used he
Widh ool o adjus and perec
he sroke, giving i hicker and
hinner poins along he way.
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The splaer consiss o hundreds o
vecor shapes. To save disk space, I
convered he splaer ino a Symbol.
To do so, I seleced he splaer group,
hen dragged i o he Symbols panel
o creae a new symbol, which I
named Splaer.
Ink splater
I like o add exure o my work, and one wayI did his was o ake a scan o an ink splaer,
and conver i o vecor pahs using he new
Image Trace in Illusraor CS6.
Once he symbol was creaed, I added as
many o he splaer symbols as I liked o
he image, roaing and skewing hem o i.
By creaing a symbol, I reduced he ile size
o he image by roughly 12MB because he
splaer was sored as a symbol.
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Treamen o shapesSome shapes I oulined and some I didn. Some are
sharp, while ohers are uzzy and aded. To ge he
uzzy edges, I applied he Feaher eec o he objec.
For he whie horn bushes a he boom o he imageswhich represen how
love can be guardedhe shapes are given exure by punching ou he inksplaer along he edges o he vines using Pahinder.
What used to take half an hour or longer
to render, now only takes a few seconds
to process with new 64-bit native support
in Illustrator CS6. Te faster execution
really helps my creative process.
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Its fascinating to see what can be done today with
the new toolsto see how technology, society,
and creativity push forward. Im always excited bythe opportunity to use Adobe Illustrator to try new
things and take new risks in my work.