IF: Villain

Missed "old" but the villain is the same… Age - the villain = all those uninvited saggy things and lines where smooth used to be!

This done with Studio Artist and home made Presets

DinDin

Some Studio Artist watercolor like or absorbent paper like effects.

This uses a watercolor paper textured bottom layer and subsequent (upper) layers set to a Multiply-like blending mode.

(presets)

cd_vect_et_bleed

cd_sumi_flyingwhite...

cd_watercolor_bleed...

A Croc

Working with the tools...
Adobe Illustrator has come a long way... Particularly after Adobe absorbed Flash.

But for every move I could make in Flash or the defunct Expression3 in a few seconds… I have to drag myself thru some kind of heavy gravity atoms - to get the same effect in Illustrator. Powerful - yes. Quick and easy to use - No!

More and more I am finding the first quick and easy actions (of drawing) carry the core and spirit of what I am trying to “say”(illustrate/communicate)… The sluggishness - and multi step process to the achievement of marking - of old application design (like that of Illustrator) still drags me down by forcing me to be TOO deliberate. Not that I really love the potential lack of focus - lack of statement in spur of the moment, improvisational art making - but I do wish the fast power of first efforts was more available in illustration software.

Rough comps thru Photoshop  are the greatest. The heart is in the comp!

More on this later.

IF: Small

Little is Small

The first page of a short comic here:

Little Bridge

Little Bridge is a collection of bite sized comic stories. Each story comes from ideas I had as a kid. They are meant for kids (of all ages). Big things from small characters points of view. Sharing some of the little wonders that inspired me. Enjoy!

IF: Pet

Some fooling around with vector based SA Presets.

IF: triangle

A little:

http://mrdoob.com/projects/harmony/

A little Studio Artist watercolor like presets

IF: wiggle

8 bit, title page art from educational software of the early 90's.

Making art with the old applications of the time and hard, square pixels was a skill like nothing artists today have to learn.

This image was made of a couple dozen colors (out of a strict, but at the time super generous - 256 color palette)

It looked good on an 256 color (Mac) monitor.

IF: Tense

Tension, Doubt, Performance anxiety… Can he catch it? Can it get away?

IF: window

Old Work that never saw the light of day

Some preproduction images for a project pitch.

The soft grey tones added 2015 for fun.

These were intended as examples of illustrations the camera would pan over while a story was read.

IF: Warrior

A fuzzy experiment in raster presets SAV5

cd_watercolor_bleed

and

cd_watercolor_beaut

IF: Reflection

Experiments with Vector Paint Presets SAV5

cd_vect_cakedline series

Some drawing fun

Some experiments with a grainy stroke vector presets in SA V5

and silly fun with raster presets

IF: Metropolis

Beneath the Metropolis

a little scene IF: noise

The scene is a hyper idealized representation of a little water runoff "cove" I remember from childhood adventures. The noise of the tiny rivulet of water back under the grass always seemed to invite exploration - but the only way to get back into the cove was thru the water - and I was too chicken to step in and get soaked.

Some experimentation with a very liquid look to vector based presets

These were meant to simulate the gradated tonal look of sumi ink paint strokes and water application to existing strokes

cd-vect_sumi-longsoft series

IF: jagged

Fake old world book cover using SAV4 and Photoshop

IF: Passion

As kids my friend and I had a passion for catching turtles…

Combined with a lasting fixation (passion) for sumi style ink painting - and adding to that SAV5 vector paints…

We would see the turtle head peeking up. You could tell how big the turtle was from the head and shadow of its body - sometimes.

cd_vect_softdraw set

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cd_vect_watocolor_auto2

cd_vect_et_bleed

IF: toy

Toying around with vector based SA presets.

IF: Nefarious

The nefarious Dr. Mallard

Made with home made SAV5 vector brushes

IF: invention

Mii Cars - not my invention. My take on the concept.

Art created years ago with Flash