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Top 10 Masters of Gradient Mesh

By Tony Soh Posted on August 22nd, 2008

Gradient Mesh Tool in Illustrator allows artist to to create photorealism drawings. Below are some examples of the top notch artist showing their works online. All of the illustrations below are made using Illustrator. No photoshop!

Takashi Morisak (Japan)

Yukio Miyamoto (Japan)

Link to old website of Yukio Miyamoto

Ann Paidrick (USA)

Halim Ghodbane (Algeria)

Reggie Gilbert (USA)

Wayne Forest (Canada)

Highside (Japan)

Brooke Nuñez Fetissoff (USA - Chicago)

Henke Svensson (Sweden)

Koji Masui (Japan)

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About The Author: Tony Soh

Hi. I'm the founder of Vector Diary. Illustrator is my passion and I have written numerous tutorials on illustrator helping people learn illustrator. My most popular tutorial on learning illustrator in 30 days has been a hit. It makes learning illustrator so easy and has benefited more than 20,000 people worldwide. Also, I've revealed some of my secret techniques in the premium tutorials. So don't forget to check it out!

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1. 
   Khawla August 22nd, 2008

   They look real! Amazing!

2. 
   Tracie August 23rd, 2008

   Are these artists saying they created these photographs, or copied them? Because I have one of those pictures from (it’s a rather old stock photo), and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t created in illustrator. I could be wrong …

3. 
   André August 23rd, 2008

   looks pretty cool. It just a matter of diligence

4. 
   Vectordiary August 23rd, 2008

   Hi Tracie, all of them are created with illustrator. They may have use a stock photo to trace, this might be possible.

5. 
   Love Malhotra August 25th, 2008

   I like It.

6. 
   yoshike October 12th, 2008

   now the real question here is why don’t you just take a photo?
   but I guess the answer is gonna be on the lines of because you can

7. 
   Vectordiary October 12th, 2008

   Hi Yoshike, with gradient mesh you can blow the picture up real big without loss of resolution. That makes a difference from a photo.

8. 
   Patti March November 12th, 2008

   I agree with Tracie… I have the image of the girl that Halim Ghodbane (Algeria)
   posted. It is from an old stock photo from Corel I believe. It does not look different from the original???

9. 
   Juny November 18th, 2008

   I could’nt belive.
   If could have the ai file.
   I would say it’s really from Adobe Illustrator.

10. 
    Patti March November 18th, 2008

    Are the .ai files available to look at for these?

11. 
    Vectordiary November 18th, 2008

    Yes, they are really done using gradient mesh. If you visit their website they actually show the gradient mesh wire. However the ai is not available for download.

12. 
    ahbchan December 12th, 2008

    unbelievable!!! can see how much efforts on them!

13. 
    wow March 18th, 2009

    Man you people are stupid. Of course it looks JUST like the picture, IT’S SUPPOSED TO! Otherwise they wouldn’t be very good at their job, and certainly not on this site. And do you honestly think that the .ai files would be available for download!? If they did that, then ANYONE could say that they drew this. If you don’t know about gradient mesh or Illustrator, then wtf are you doing on this website?

14. 
    Nicci Nyc July 1st, 2009

    *Drop Jaws*

15. 
    reezluv July 2nd, 2009

    tracing?wow!there are awesome..this it pretty nice list..I am only know Yukio Miyamoto (Japan), but the rest are totally new for me..really amazing..

16. 
    Junry July 2nd, 2009

    Is there any tutorials to come up with this amazing project?
    Thanks for a reply.