Revisiting our regal tuxedo kitty, Kordell.
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Tuxedo Cat
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Coffee Lover
A new take on last year’s coffee cat poster art.
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Little Big Fan
He’s his own biggest fan!
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Crab
His flailing claws were either exclaiming, “Hug me!” or “Get off my lawn!”
From my daily drawings…
Crab – pen and inkwash. Drawn with a TWSBI Mini fountain pen (extra fine nib) using Platinum Carbon Ink and shaded with a Kuretake no. 8 fountain brush pen filled with Noodler’s Lexington Gray ink (diluted 4 parts water to 1 part ink). Digital scan adjusted and edited in Photoshop. Color applied in Illustrator.
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How to Create a Vector Portrait with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
This tutorial will walk you through the steps that I take to create vector portraits using Photoshop to prepare a source/guide image and Illustrator to draw the final artwork. Continue reading “How to Create a Vector Portrait with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop”
Sunscreen
On a sunny day, it’s nice to have friends in high places!
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High-Contrast Portrait
In the past month, something has “clicked” for me with my drawings in Illustrator. I’m not sure why it took this long, but I’ve finally graduated from visualizing my drawings primarily as contours/outlines (think of the black outline around most comic and cartoon art), and have shifted to looking at the shapes and contrasts between light and shadow.
This portrait of my wife is based on a photo from our 2014 trip to Toronto. Drawing faces is a big challenge for me (need to spend more time with the sketchbook), but I’m pleased with the way my first Illustrator portrait turned out.
Learn how to create this style of vector portrait by reading my tutorial: How to Create a Vector Portrait
Regal Tuxedo Kitty
Our now departed Kordell Kitty (2014) was a handsome cat. He had tuxedo markings, which brought to mind high social standing, secret agent espionage and royalty. What a nice way to remember him.
In truth, Kordell was not a cat about town. He rarely left the house and was scared of his own shadow. Here’s the source photo for Kordell’s portrait. I think he’d just woken up from a nap, so he looks pretty alert for a cat who spent most of the day in a “coma.”
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How to Use Opacity Masks in Adobe Illustrator
Opacity masks offer a easy-to-edit, non-destructive way to change the transparency of your Illustrator artwork by creating shapes through which the underlying artwork is revealed and concealed.
So, when might you want to use an opacity mask?
Here are two practical examples that were adapted from questions asked on the graphic design question-and-answer site Graphic Design Stack Exchange. Continue reading “How to Use Opacity Masks in Adobe Illustrator”
Breakaway
Even nature needs a vacation!
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