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20 Insane Vectors by Ahmed Alrefaie
May 12, 2009
Besides the regular names we know I haven't seen a good new vector artist in a while, that's why I was really surprised with the work of Ahmed, he creates great vectors so full of details that it's unbelievable. No wonder why he takes a month on each piece, check it out!
All my artwork is created from start to finish on Photoshop CS3, using only a mouse, I create outlines using the Pentool provided then color. Some refer to it as a Vector, and others Vexel, eitherway it uses precise and accurate lines and shapes in order to create sharp artwork. An average artwork I create takes approx. one month. That said I am lazy ;P
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67 Comments
Amazing artist, love the vector work, very unique style :o)
Holy crap! This guy is REALLY good!!
Dude, amazing work. What kind of books do you read? Must be some serious cyberpunk going on in your head. Really nice. I like the style and the theme.
I asume you've read Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson). Some real cool ideas there for further artwork. Maybe something you want to look into...
Great article!
truly amazing :)
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WOW! Simply amazing!
i cant believe that one with the feathers... thats insane!
Great work!
Woa amazing work! love those vectors, great style.
insane! What great style and imagination.
Wow. That's amazing. *is jealous*
you should modify the source material images more. Its blatantly clear that the models are from popular pictures of well-known people, which mars the art. Try unknown models, or just change the faces more.
true artiest !!
FODA !
Awesome works here.
MUST PRACTICE WITH PEN TOOL.
MUST PRACTICE WITH PEN TOOL.
MUST PRACTICE WITH PEN TOOL.
He's from kwit i think and he's 22 years old
superb illustrations!
WHat tha, this is vector. Wowsers!
I love it. Im in love with it!
Wow!
really nice vectors
awesome! that's some serious talent
Wicked Awesome!
I've never seen such nice vectors. Bravo Man, you've found you niche.
i agree, most are obvious photos of famous actresses/models which leads me to believe they were mostly traced. (the extra bits and colors of course aren't) however creating vectors from photos is what the pen tool is all about so these are great portfolio-only pieces showcasing a designers skill in tracing.
I just can say, WOW!
Awesome!!!
As a beginning graphic/website design student, I found these pretty awesome and only hope that one day I can create something at least 1/10th as good. (But I doubt it)
Excuse me now, gonna go check out your tutorial section... :)
INSANE!!!
incredible artwork, some of the faces on the vectors seem familiar Angelina Jolie and Jessica Alba, the artwork is so detailed, it would probably take me ages to re-produce something like the 3rd picture in this blog.
omg, this is insane. Amazing stuff!
you are not a human. ur skills nd ideas r out of this world.
( i do see Angelina Jolie in the one with the hook and Jessica Alba in the one with the feathers and most of the faces look familiar, it would be super rad to create the faces too)
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Pretty nice art, but too bad he's ruined them with watermarks in the middle.
So i'm not the only one who sees Megan fox, Katie holmes, Angelina and the other actresses?
Absolutely beautiful stuff
This is very cool. I love many of the concepts used. Pretty creative stuff. So this took 20 months to make?
This is sick! Insane! Fabulous! Pure skill...
I also see obviously Megan Fox as well as the chick that marries Chandler in friends
Yea. it's pretty cool.
i like how all the girls look like they have penis's
Needs more porn
So he traces photos of actresses and adds crappy looking environments. Very nice, this is almost certainly not horrible at all. This "skill" is like being the best person at getting cancer.
WTF? It's a cartoon!!! Something that can be created in two to three hours on paper.
I see Megan Fox, Katie Holmes, Jessica Alba, Angelina Jolie Carmen Electra...
lol seems like a lot of them are based off of celebrity poses.
Wow, that is crazy good! I wish I had half the skill.
Am I visualising correctly?? These women look like actresses. Monica Gellar? Nicole Kidman? The chick from 40 Days and 40 Nights .. you ve really captured the realism in people.
There's obvious tracing here, which is a shame, because the artist seems to have a firm grasp of geometric shapes, but the blatant tracing of celebrity images ruins it, they are recognizable to the point where I find it morally objectionable to pass this on as your own artwork without giving credit to the model and the photographer.
Agreed. I find the work to be quite weak. Poor color, depth and just not as striking as I normally see on this site. The fact it takes a month to do these seems like a waste.
I think the dudes just tracing some photos of actresses and then modifying that by adding his own stuff.
I can see a couple of photos of Angelina Jolie in here as well as Meagan Fox, Shannyn Sossamon, Jessica Alba, Katie Holmes etc.
So bascally he's tracing the poses and the faces and that will cut out a lot of work so I highly doubt it'll take a month to make one of these unless he's spending very little time on it everyday.
Tracing is no big deal. Nothing special. Anyone can do it given enough time and you could do it within a couple of minutes using the live trace function in Adobe illustrator. Otherwise you could use the cutout function in photoshop, import that to illustrator and then trace it if that satisfies you.
People get fooled so easily these days.
I think the dudes just tracing some photos of actresses and then modifying that by adding his own stuff.
I can see a couple of photos of Angelina Jolie in here as well as Meagan Fox, Shannyn Sossamon, Jessica Alba, Katie Holmes etc.
So bascally he's tracing the poses and the faces and that will cut out a lot of work so I highly doubt it'll take a month to make one of these unless he's spending very little time on it everyday.
Tracing is no big deal. Nothing special. Anyone can do it given enough time and you could do it within a couple of minutes using the live trace function in Adobe illustrator.
People get fooled so easily these days.
Just read his comment at the top. So they aren't even vectors. They are vexels. Everyone calling them vectors should learn the difference.
These are technically virtuosic, creative and well designed, but they still look like vector illustrations. They don't stand up to comparison with natural media illustrations. Too bad. The technology seemed exciting ten or fifteen years ago. Now, I'm thinking, "Learn to paint, dude."
Wow, beautiful work - I love the little worlds that you create, especially the one in the light bulb!
Even more insane is fact that everything is created just using mouse not tablet!
I wonder how many hours took every single artwork!
They look great. But vector? Show me where the SVG files are and i'll link this resource in my SVG resource.
great work!
I like them!
Awesome awesome work. wow
can't believe it .. truly amazing O_O
thats like comic illustration, but WONDERFUL
thanks for share
Woow, nice & stunning work!
Did he used Models? The Girl with the sunglasses and feathers reminds me of Jessica Alba. At least her face.
wow amazing vector work!
wow, great job m8, check out my portfolio too :), I have just started the whole design thing and I think that I am doing well:)
I ended up here via Digg. The art looks amazing, however, your post fails to resize the images to fit the space and so you see aliasing and "jaggies" all over the place. Not very complimentary to vector art which is so sharp and precise. If you look at the image how it looks on the page, then right click the image and view it at it's correct resolution, you'll see what I mean. Doesn't take that long to properly resize a group of images, and they'll look infinitely better on your page.
Wow, that is crazy good! I wish I had half the skill...
that's awsome vectorr skill dude...!!!
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insane!
what amazing talent!
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