Idiophonebox

My new site is alive and kicking. I’ll still be updating here with TeePearls progress (slow going at the moment) and other projects I’m working on. I’m trying to keep Well Terned “professional” which just means posting polished work and not posting there when I’m depressed or frustrated. You can continue to enjoy my frustration here and on twitter.

wellterned:

This detail makes me incredibly happy.

I feel like I’ve finally come to a point where I feel comfortable using Illustrator and Photoshop to manipulate my hand drawn sketches into finished products that actually look like what I envisioned in my head from the start. As with many of the things I enjoy, I’m completely self-taught when it comes to digital drawing. I’ve read people criticize illustrations that appear to rely too heavily on the “live trace” function of Illustrator, but I use it to finesse certain pieces of illustrations I’ve drawn by hand and transferred to the computer (usually with my digital camera— I need a scanner). Even then, I go back in and retouch to adjust angles and thickness.

If using live trace this way is wrong, then I don’t want to be right.

My 2011 Sketchbook Project book is online now.

They made the paper thicker this year because pen lines could be seen through the page. I think the quality of last year’s paper enhanced my book. I only drew on one side of the page, but you can see two at a time; one faint and one defined. I like how each drawing has the chance to interact with two others.