Last September I received a request, by the owner of the well-known Pata Negra tapas restaurant franchise, to create a fully vectorized banner out of their trademark hand crafted front sign. The file could then be used for manifold purposes, the most prominent of which would be to print a long banner for placing over the construction scaffolding surrounding the building.
The only input I initially received was a scan of a water-colour sketch. In order to create the vector banner I essentially had to manually recreate everything, since tracing on Illustrator would ruin the nuanced water-colour gradients. Also, because the symmetry of the original wasn't entirely precise. You can see the two banners below, as well as the printed banner on the scaffolding.
The only input I initially received was a scan of a water-colour sketch. In order to create the vector banner I essentially had to manually recreate everything, since tracing on Illustrator would ruin the nuanced water-colour gradients. Also, because the symmetry of the original wasn't entirely precise. You can see the two banners below, as well as the printed banner on the scaffolding.
The finalized vector banner.
The original input I received as reference.
The printed banner on the scaffolding.
