Clik here to view.
How To An Illustrator: Distant Mountains
Another answer to a technique question from Reddit: Here's a fast way to make a bunch of mountains fading into clouds in Illustrator. There are others; this is the way I'd do it. 1. Make two...
View ArticleClik here to view.
bone hurting juice
“how do i distort text like this” – someone on /r/illustrator “distortion meshes” – me also here is some experimentation in faux watercolor looks that I need to explore further.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Illustrator experiments: the chiseled look
So today BoingBoing posted some work by a Russian illustrator named Maxim Shkret. I’m pretty sure his work is done in a 3D program. But I asked myself “how could I get something like this in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How To An Illustrator: shitty printing
Because sometimes you want things to look like a crappy, blown-out xerox. Or at least one person on /r/adobeillustrator did. click on the circle to the right of the layer with your b&w image to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How To An Illustrator: sharing stuff across files when cut-and-paste breaks...
Sometimes, when you want to copy a complex appearance between two documents, Illustrator will decide it wants to expand the effect instead. This is rarely a thing I want – one easy-to-edit path can...
View ArticleClik here to view.
fill doodles/cheap illustrator puppetry
Now and then I go through the Adobe Illustrator subreddit and answer some questions nobody else has had a good answer to. Usually this means I am procrastinating. One person wanted to know how to draw...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Elements That Cannot Be Used In A Brush
So there you are, working away in Illustrator, making something that you want it to repeat a whole bunch of times for you. You drag it to the Brushes panel and you get something like this. Perhaps your...
View ArticleCopying complex objects between Illustrator documents
Categories: UncategorizedTags: how-to, illustratorIllustrator Tip #856t292: Copying complicated stuff between documents. A lot of the time, when you try to copy from one document and paste into...
View ArticleClik here to view.
stylized gradient trick #67
Here’s a little stylization trick. It kinda falls apart on anything besides rectangles; here’s some extra magic to fix that. With slightly different colors because I closed the file and wanted to play...
View ArticleClik here to view.
preparing for eye pain
I just spent two hours making this happen in Illustrator. It’s the safe version of this. If you click on this image, or on any of the other ones in this post, you’ll see a higher-res copy. I am not...
View ArticleClik here to view.
string art in Illustrator
Another one of those “I answered this on /r/AdobeIllustrator and thought it would make a good technique post” things. How to make a cute little string-art effect. 1. Draw some lines 2. Use the Blend...
View ArticleClik here to view.
sizing
I spent a while today and Monday doing something I’d been putting off for a good while: resizing the styles for the Mixolyne mechs. See, I’d drawn them super-huge originally, and a lot of the graphic...
View Articleillustrator: updates
I just got a note from the Adobe beta program about a new build of Illustrator 24.x, so I guess maybe it’s finally time to move from 22.x (CC2018) to 23.x (CC2019). Herein are my notes about the new...
View ArticleClik here to view.
I like layers.
This is the entire layer structure for pages 18/19 of the Mixolyne side of Parallax. It is pretty average for the number of layers per panel. I threw together this quick composite screenshot due to a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Twenty years of no lines.
This is the oldest image in the gallery section of my website. It is not the first thing I drew with Illustrator. But it is the first thing I drew with Illustrator where I went from a scan of a pencil...
View ArticleThe Empress’ Walkies
This past week there was a bunch of drama in the furry scene over the new site “Furrylife.Online” and their public vote as to whether or not allow “feral” characters – which is to say, animals that go...
View ArticleClik here to view.
coruscation
I just put together a little Automatic Kirby Krackle style that I’m pretty happy with. It could be better and maybe it will be by the time I’m done with the drawing I’m doing it for, but it’s more than...
View ArticleClik here to view.
frizzly hair
“What tools are good for drawing kinky hair in Illustrator?” Here’s an Appearance stack that I whipped up in like ten minutes that’s a good start. kinky hair demo.ai – open up the Appearance and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Illustrator: sluggish previews, and solutions for that.
When you start doing complicated documents in Illustrator, full of live effects and crazy magic, things start to slow down. Not surprising, really: you’re asking it to do a lot of work every time you...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cyan Magenta Yellow Butts
This is the best Illustrator bug ever and I hope they never fix it. I was looking through old blog entries and found my post from when I discovered this back in 2014. It’s still there.
View Article