Since I have been doing more illustration lately ( a blast form the past, tho i have missed it) i decided to start in earnest to try and exercise my art muscle. In that vein i am trying to do a sketch of something or another every day. And the online ‘contests’ help with inspiration. One of those is Illustration Friday.
This is my first entry into the very cool Illustration Friday contest. I dont really hope to garner any notice from it, but i think that the idea behind IF is to force you to draw. And that is what i did. I drew so many little whorls and loops and ‘twists’ not to mention there are faces, at least one Cthulu, lots of spiders, a panda, a bunny, a cat, a bunch of DNA and many many other micro-sketches.
I did this on my brand-spankin-new Wacom intuos 3, which is pretty badass. I have been the king of teh mouse-drive pen-tool in illustrator for years now, and i would never have done a piece like this one without the wacom. it took me a long time, but the i think that the diversity of the shape and width that i got automatically from the wacom really helped make the doodles look nice as a background texture. Had i used the mouse and the pen (or brush even) like i normally used to do all my illustrator work, it would have taken me ten times as long, and looked worse because all the lines would be the same width.
anyhoo, yay! wacom intuos 3!