Dog

Drawn from imagination on paper and inked, then colored using Photoshop

Illustration Friday - Wool

Illustration Friday -- Explore

Illustration Friday - Stretch

Glass

I like doing line drawings of glass an other objects. Here I've colored it in using Illustrator. I practiced with the Pen tool and learned about clipping masks in this exercise.

Illustration Friday - Voices

Here's another sorry attempt at using Illustrator. I didn't have time to finish it for IF, but I'll post it on my blog here. I used the pen tool to outline the cats, and the gradients to color them in. I'm still working on gradients, I hate the way it works in Illustrator. I think I could make a much better illustration of this in Photoshop. Sometimes I think of trying the same illustration in both programs, just to see what the difference would be, but I don't have time to do that, usually.

Multiple

I got a late start to Illustration Friday this week, so I didn't get to post it.

Logo

Here's a logo I made for my husband. He wanted it to have a sketchy, hand-drawn feel with 60s-style coloring. I used Illustrator and learned a lot with this one.

I did this using Painter 8 a couple of years ago. I still haven't gotten around to learning that program completely. I like the way textures can be used and I love the way it emulates certain drawing materials like oil pastel and charcoal.

Benito

This is an illustration I did in Painter. I don't really know how to use the program, so I was basically just fooling around with it. I drew it completely from imagination, hence the goofy, unreal-looking pirate hat. It's based on a story by Herman Melville, "Benito Cereno."