Here is my post for Illustration Friday. Yes, I’ve been canned before. I prefer the term downsized. It sounds good to the waist.
Category: Adobe Illustrator
Drawing from sketchbook 0806, page 130-schnauzer
This was done in Adobe Illustrator. The outlines are a 2 point pressure brush. I drew the lines on a Wacom Intuos 3 tablet.
Vandelay Design has a great post on the top 10 tutorial sites for Adobe Illustrator. This is a great resource. Too often, most of the tutorials focus on Photoshop. Adobe Illustrator definitely has advantages for graphics, illustration and cartooning.
Layers Magazine’s web site has a great tutorial by Bert Monroy. He shows how you can use the warp tool in Adobe Illustrator to get realistic effects such as the wire mesh in this trash can illustration.
The nice thing about using the tool in Illustrator is you have greater control in the mesh grid and you can make the mesh looked banged up. I’m try this one out.
http://www.layersmagazine.com/artistic-expressions-warp-versus-warp.html#comment-3832
Tony Soh at the istockdiary.com blog has been doing some tutorials for the beginning Adobe Illustrator user.
My drawing software of choice has been Adobe Illustrator for several years. I like the fact artwork is scalable. You don’t have to worry about enlarging your artwork only to see everything pixelated. Yuck!
It works well with my cartoony style. Even if I am doing something realistic, I usually do the base artwork in Illustrator and export my work to Adobe Photoshop.
If you are an illustrator, I highly recommend Adobe Illustrator.