This will make you quit using Illustrator....

[CES020]

It'll either make you quit on convince you to learn more!

Take some time if you have it, to go through the tutorials this guy did as well.

http://www.khulsey.com/masters_yukio_miyamoto.html

There's some sick illustrations on this site as well. Many have been posted on other sites before, but there's some new stuff there as well, along with a couple of tutorials at the bottom. The first photo on this site is amazing, the Asian girl with her hand on her chin.

http://10steps.sg/inspirations/artworks/photo-realistic-vectors/

 

[The Vector Doctor]

Yes this guy does amazing work

 

[TheSellOut]

WOW...and look, he works on Windows! Great links

 

[Graphics2u]

Truly amazing!

 

[Rooster]

WOW...and look, he works on Windows! Great links

Windows?

 

[The Vector Doctor]

Yeah he is old school. That is os 9.2

 

[artsnletters]

that work is killer but in some of those wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to just take a photograph? I mean absolutely beautiful work....but is there a market for that type of illustration these days or all those just portfolio/demo pieces?
Tim

 

[letterman7]

Makes me wonder, though... the second person in the '10steps' link - Takashi - his page says "RealTrace" by Illustrator. Not being familiar with all the Adobe products, isn't that simply taking a photo and applying the program to trace it? And if so, what really applicable technical skill is there except for adding color??