Portrait of a '64 Fender Stratocaster

[lycialive]

I did this one 2 years ago with Photoshop after I bought my first strat.772

[Scott Bails]

Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly did you "do with Photoshop?"

To my uninformed eyes it looks like a pic of a pretty Strat.

[Mikhael]

Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly did you "do with Photoshop?"

To my uninformed eyes it looks like a pic of a pretty Strat.

Well, the neck was placed on it, the bridge is a hardtail on top of the original I guess, since the bar comes out from under it, and the fingerboard markers are red.

[lycialive]

Every single piece down to the last nut and bolt were placed on. The whole thing was illustrated by hand using about 60 layers. The body and the wood grain took the longest time naturally. The neck was the second most time-consuming part. Though it's too small to see, all the button numbers and the word "stratocaster" were done with adobe Illustrator, then imported into photoshop. I also have a portrait of an ibanez acoustic as well.

[Scott Bails]

Ahhh...now I get it.


In that case, fantastic work. Very impressive. :up

[lycialive]

Thanks!

[progmatist]

You might change the title to 54 through 57 strat. 64s had 3 tone sunburst and rosewood fret boards.

[lycialive]

You know what-you're right. I remember that it was a '56 strat. 1964 was just my favorite year in general and got my reference pics mixed up. Take a dollar out of petty cash.

[Plasmatopia]

Pretty amazing...