{"id":121,"date":"2010-08-11T18:23:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T18:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2015-09-04T08:43:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T13:43:13","slug":"vg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/portfolio\/vg\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Even with tight deadlines, I always start with a rough\u00a0sketch of the idea\u00a0before I take it to the computer for the final.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The final illustration often varies in size according to the art director’s layout. The vector format facilitates sizing much better.<\/p><\/div>\n

Reader Mail Illustrations<\/h4>\n

For more than a decade, I’ve been privileged to partner with Vintage Guitar magazine<\/a> on a number of projects ranging from T-shirt designs to publication layout. One of the magazine’s most frequent assignments for me is generating art for the Reader Mail column. Every month I have the opportunity to illustrate one of the guitar-related subjects shared by faithful readers of the magazine.<\/p>\n

In the early days, I utilized pen and ink and digital color to execute raster\u00a0illustrations but have streamlined the style to an all-vector digital format.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t that long ago that I could joke about doing all these drawings of guitarists and their instruments,\u00a0having never owned a guitar myself. No more. Ironically, this gig has given me a beautiful, PRS Torero (signed by Paul Reed Smith himself) that I’ll most likely pass on to my youngest son who does<\/em> play guitar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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