It has been a while since
Lensdepictions first announced the launch of Vector graphics gallery. Since
then, I have created more than hundred vector illustrations for it. The inspiration for every artwork had stemmed
from a whole range of unimaginable sources coming from everyday life.
But, this particular vector
illustration is first of its kind for me till date, because it is inspired from, and is a ditto copy of an Image - one of
my own nature photographs. It is a common practice to convert raster
images to vectors, but somehow, I have always kept my photographs and vectors
separate, at least for the purpose of creating stock vectors.
I had captured this photograph
in a very impromptu manner. It was a place far away from city, I just happened
to stop for few minutes there. I spotted this black butterfly sitting on a
tree branch. Liking the way its colors were complementing the tiny green
leaves of the branch, I just clicked a couple of pictures in hurry and left.
However, later on I started to believe that with the presence of just 3-4 colors, eye-popping contrast provided by the beautiful colors of the butterfly,
and a clutter free scene, this was a very simple, fresh and yet pretty unusual nature composition, one of those - easy on eyes...
But as evident, the picture is ruined by lack of focus and improper exposure. Perhaps, this
could have been a stunning photograph if created with dedication.
Then after, every time I got a look into the computer folder with this photograph, I sighed
and regretted. There was no way I could correct the blurs in this picture, it
was an opportunity wasted...
Recently, this
photograph came across once again and an idea struck to me. There was one more
way I could do justice to this beautiful scene, by depicting it in another way,
by recreating it as a drawing!
And that is exactly what I did, and, did I enjoy
it? YES, ABSOLUTELY. In fact, it kind of looks better than the photograph…Isn't it? :)
Image, Graphic and Article Copyright © 2014 Gyaneshwari Dave
