A few days ago Carsten (a.k.a raster) told me he made a simple illustration for enlightenment.org‘s about page. His idea was to create something to show that Englightenment and it’s software libraries are well, elegant. And what says “elegant” more than a pretty lady in a nice dress? What he did was this vector:

And he asked me to improve on it. We talked about it a bit – basically he wanted to keep it simple, black/white/grey with only the lips in solid red. He also mentioned soemething about a statue/sculpture. I tweaked and experimented with it quite a bit and here is the final result:

Obviously it’s not 100% anatomically correct, but that wasn’t the point anyway. I used Illustrator’s mesh tool for the dress and the body shading, then painted over and added marble-ish texture in Photoshop. The shading on the face is mostly painted, because I just couldn’t do it properly in Ai. Unfortunately the file cannot be exported to SVG again, but I provided a high res, layered PSD for Raster to tweak it and play with it if he wants to.

The illustration will soon appear on e.org :-)