This is one image in a series I did about darts. A “Ton Eighty” is 180 points and the highest possible throw achieved by landing all three darts inside the triple bed of the number twenty scoring 3 x 20 for each dart. I modeled and rendered this image using 3D Studio Max. The blurred effect was created by setting a very short depth of field with the virtual camera focused on the dart’s entry point into the dartboard. This effect helps gives the image a more dramatic and photorealistic look.

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This image is about two years old and my first real attempt at a vector-based illustration using Adobe Illustrator. I was teaching myself clipping paths, blends and different tools such as pathfinder. I was trying to see how close I could get to something photorealistic or at least something that not at all screamed clip-art.

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