We enjoy the fresh, light aesthetic Petica brings to his vector illustrations. Although mainly designing in Adobe Illustrator for his commercial work, Petica keeps the same sense of simple blocking and mixing of colours as in his personal work with various printing techniques.
Seeing the snapshots of his day-to-day creative set up, it’s interesting how the two processes vary so much yet compliment the other so well. We have the stages of printing brought into the vector designs with the layering and approach to colour, and the distinctive outline to the shapes found by using the various tools in Illustrator seen in his printed work.
Plus, that’s some workspace— so many vector files!
“I’m getting commissions for big companies communication and for magazines, besides that, my personal focus is on print, using silkscreen, block print and doing small edition books.”
‘My work process is fully digital and vector, using Adobe Illustrator and a Wacom tablet, returning to manual process when I’m printing.”
“I compose my images mixing shapes traced from different pictures, avoiding curves and abstract forms, in a collage style, restricting to a limited color range.”
“When I’m using transparency, especially with silkscreen, I use a restrained set of 2-4 colors and extend the palette by overlapping them.”
© Petica, 2013
