Vicar Amelia
Categories: UncategorizedTags: art, bloodborne, illustrator …I’ve been playing a lot of Bloodborne lately. Illustrator, 1:30. Also finishing this made me miss the bus for tumbling class. Feh. Need...
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New Illustrator.
There’s a new version of Illustrator. New versions of all of Adobe’s stuff but who the hell uses that obscure Photoshop thing? Not me. Pixels are so 1986. Running down the “What’s New” page on Adobe’s...
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Owning my tools.
There we go. No more creepy drowned corpses staring at me when I boot my computer up any more. And the real version number instead of the marketing number – I started with Illustrator 8, and I kinda...
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Categories: UncategorizedTags: art, illustrator, nick, sketchbook Something I whipped up for my ex-with-benefits’ birthday. Which is today. And maybe for mine. Which is the day after tomorrow....
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scribble test
Oh hey if you make a few graphic styles to make it easy to switch between a few sets of settings on the ‘scribble’ effect you can really quickly do something pretty close to cross-hatching. I tried...
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One of my favorite Illustrator actions.
This is one I use all the time when making comics. I draw shapes for my panels, then put them on separate layers. Then I click the targeting circle on the right of the layer, and hit the f-key I have...
View ArticleOne of those moments of loving my tools.
“It’ll be great,” I told myself. “An endless plain of black eggs, stretching off into infinity. An awesome image to open the last chapter of Rita with.” Yeah, sounds great. Until I have to draw them...
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Illustrator tip: Symmetric drawing.
Here’s a way to quickly do repetitive designs with Illustrator. The examples and directions are for a kaleidoscopic effect; you could also use it for a simple vertical or horizontal mirror. 1. Make a...
View Articleyour adobe illustrator lesson plan
Someone on /r/adobeillustrator posted an image and asked what parts of the program they should explore next. I ended up giving a list of most of Illustrator’s major features, ranked by how I think...
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Drowning City: first step.
These are the first two finished panels of The Drowning City. They look pretty much exactly like I envisioned the comic looking fourteen years ago when it started to really take shape. They took a bit...
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Lifecrease
Back in 2007, I drew a picture and decided it looked like an album cover. So I drew a fake back cover, as well. Last week, I was looking at that picture and decided I still liked it. So I drew another...
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schooling: clouds
Over on the Illustrator subreddit, someone posted a link to this image, asking “is it possible to make something like this in Illustrator”: “What Only Exists In The Mind”, by Jeffrey Smith And it got...
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How To An Illustrator: Messy Brushes
Here’s a thing I’ve been kind of wanting for a while, and finally nailed: that dotty, super-spitty-airbrush look. Draw a black circle. effect->brush stroke->spatter, play with the parameters...
View Articlebug report: “unwanted toads in my brush palette”
So there’s this side effect of Adobe’s attempt to retool Illustrator into something that can be driven entirely by a touchscreen: an uneditable, undeletable “Touch Calligraphic Brush” appears at the...
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How To An Illustrator: abusing image trace
Fucking around with image trace because someone asked how to do this kind of stuff on Reddit. Process: import image object->image trace->make window->image trace, set it to black and white...
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some pointillism
Fooling around with making Illustrator do stippling for me via the magic of a few scatter brushes. Because holy shit all those dots would be a ton of work. Especially when I decided to retroactively...
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A Young Lady’s Illustration Primer, or, Peggy buys a Surface.
This Sunday, I suddenly found myself thinking “I want to be able to work in Illustrator on a tablet badly enough to deal with Windows”. I’ve avoided running Windows for my entire computing life, which...
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Fuzzy shading.
A quick (~15min) doodle of Baron K from Parallax, mostly done to test out a shading method someone asked about on Reddit. The uniform is probably off-model, I didn’t bother pulling up the pitch bible....
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Symmetry
Tonight’s Illustrator how-to: drawing symmetrically. Draw a big rectangle, centered where you want the center of rotation to be. Far bigger than you anticipate ever drawing in. Like ‘3x as wide as the...
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