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This was how illustrators used to be.
Hey! 🖖 I guess it’s time to reintroduce myself and prove my work is not prompt-generated. 🙄
I’m Razvan, a humble freelance illustrator from Suceava, Romania, and I’ve been turning squiggly lines into cool shit for the past 10+ years because I like making stuff look cool and...
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Simple ideas often make the best illustrations.
It had been a while since I last drew, and when I finally sat down, my mind went blank. When that happens, I pick something simple and a little cliché and see what I can do with it.
This time it was an apple. Then a worm popped out to say hi!
The pink worm against the green and blue is a great color pop. The apple with the missing center is a fun touch.
From AI-generated artwork to a more polished vector illustration.
I tested Ideogram Vector by generating an illustration for a lemon ginger tea packaging.
The raw output was a good starting point, but it still needed some work.
So I converted it into an editable SVG, refined the shapes, rearranged and resized the elements, and added a bit of texture to give the illustration more depth.
Here's a look at the before and after!
What do you think? 🍋
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After is absolutely better it focus on the main image🎉🎉
The Modern Bestiary — Old monsters, new curses
I found Anton Seder's Das Thier in der decorativen Kunst (Vienna, 1896) on the Internet Archive, in a public-domain scan by the Getty Research Institute: dragons and sea serpents engraved like a naturalist's specimens and framed in gold ornament. I cut five of Seder's dragons into a Recraft V4 Style that draws the creature and the engraving, then built two more Styles from the same archives (Doré's storm hatching, Harry Clarke's white line on black, Seder's own damask and gold) to repaint each plate in two or three inks over black. Chained together, they make The Modern Bestiary: six folklore creatures whose legendary power has become a modern curse.
The basilisk now petrifies you through your phone, the sphinx makes you prove you are human, and Baba Yaga's hut only turns round for the exact password.
Every creature became a full-art trading card. The deck comes with a back, a booster pack, cardboard mockups and a pack-opening film, all made in Recraft Studio; the card frame and text are typeset on top.
🗂 Recraft project: https://www.recraft.ai/project/bbf6a9a5-fbd2-4dd7-a384-1365fe3f0d53
🎨 Styles (anyone with the link can use them):
I · Seder 1896 — https://www.recraft.ai/styles/2ff8402f-d4ad-4fda-a445-12f3f4c6fffa
II · Night inks — https://www.recraft.ai/styles/ed34b145-e226-4098-8b21-1fff449b4b10
III · Lacquer inks — https://www.recraft.ai/styles/e1b93a4a-5277-4d1f-b82b-d19d60bbb8b4
📜 Archive: https://archive.org/details/gri_33125013920190 (full list of 10 references in the first reply)
📣 Social post: https://x.com/builtbykern/status/2116669432323842378
Stunning