So whats is FLCL? Fooly Cooly, furi kuri, a weird dance made up in the Gundam series… Well no one knows, and I guess its better that we don’t get into that tonight. So here we have a vector work of the show’s main character, Ta. As you can guess the artist was some pompous jerk that was trying to be abstract with the design. Really dude, its only half of a face and I am supposed to feel some sort of emotion from this…..
Well, Like every post. I digress. The artist used Adobe Illustrator so that he could use the artwork in any size. Using the pen-tool he made each section separately in various layers. IE hat, mouth, eyes. He used the sloppy style to give a sorta pastel effect. Very nicely executed, but I would still call the artist a jerk….If I ever met him,.
Half of this design looks as though it was drawn by hand, either on paper and scanned in, or through a tablet (the hat, face, etc) so that it looks more like a hand drawn cartoon, rather than a graphically made cartoon drawing. It gives the character a little more dimension. The basic copying of shapes that was used in the right corner of the hair gives dimensionality to the piece as well.