Today I was browsing through Vectortuts and came across this article. “What a great idea!” I thought, and I decided to man up and submit the ‘spiderdog’ vector illustration that I made for peer review. I was a little hesitant at first because I thought maybe they’d tear it apart, but hey, how else are you going to learn right? I just hope it’s not too late for the awesome folks at Vectortuts to look over it.

The spider-dog thing all started from a skateboard that we made at work (at Shopify we have design challenges, and this one was to make a cool skateboard deck). I’m not sure how it all started but I thought having a dog with multiple eyes was a cool eye-dea (SEE WHAT I DID THERE). Also, Burger King is awesome.

After I was done with the skateboard, I was pretty happy with the result so I decided to take a picture and vectorize it. It was a good exercise for getting more familiar with the pen tool. It was also nice because I learned more how to use the Pathfinder tools.

I decided to vectorize only the head of the spider-dog because I thought it made a cool little ’emblem’. Besides, the body could use a bit more work/refining.

I think it’s really cool that Vectortuts is doing peer reviews, I’m really looking forward to reading their feedback! My submission can be found on their Facebook page here.

UPDATE (11:19PM): OMG VECTORTUTS LIKED MY POST!