Sally Calls on Saturday

Whew. It’s been a busy week. As most of you know, I started a new job on Monday and so I’ve been a bit remiss in my blogging and designing lately. I guess I’m still in transition–going from being on my own very loose schedule to a regular, 9-5 schedule is pretty jarring. I’m really [...]

Fun with Silhouettes, Part Deux

Here’s what happened with those little bird silhouettes from earlier. Not bad, really. The set actually looks pretty cute. As soon as the big bucks start rolling in from the new job, I plan on getting these babies framed so I can hang them all in an arrangement similar to the one in this [...]

Adventures in Illustrator Tutorials

For someone who is supposedly a Photoshop lover, I’m rather inept when it comes to adding textures to my illustrations. Actually, it’s something I hadn’t even really thought about. I’m glad I found this very cool tutorial from Photoshop Star–it gives a very tantalizing taste of the variety of effects that one can achieve with [...]

New character

Yikes, this guy was difficult to complete! Do I always say that? As usual, about half-way through the process I contemplated just scrapping the project and starting on something new. Once again, I’m glad I stuck to the drawing.

This one is a little different since I actually started with a “real” pencil sketch. Now that [...]

Fun with Adobe Illustrator

I wanted my first project in Adobe Illustrator to be relatively simple. I know that most of my characters these days aren’t all that complicated, but I’m still new to Illustrator, so I thought I would take it especially easy on myself.
I’ve been wanting to draw a cute glass of milk for awhile so I [...]

Getting Ill with Illustrator

I’ve mentioned a few times that these days I do all of my illustration on Photoshop. For those of you who are fortunate to have it, you’ll know it’s a pretty great program. Why switch to Illustrator, then? Well, you can get cool shizz like the pic above in Illustrator a bit more easily than [...]