Drawing a day 13

Yesterday I was asked to act as a science teacher for our Wednesday night church kids.

We were supposed to have a science experiment. I was handed the materials on Sunday, had vacation time Sunday and Monday, and got to see what it was all about on Tuesday evening. I didn't have time to try the experiment ahead of time. Big mistake!

Nothing exploded, thank heavens. No one got hurt, no one passed out, but the experiment didn't work. Chalk one up to "should have tried the experiment ahead of time!

Drawing a Day 012

When calculators first came into the mainstream market, my baby sister would spend hours playing with it as if it was a video game. Come to think of it, Pong wasn't much more exciting than a calculator!

Drawing a Day_009/Illustration Friday: Canned

Drawing a Day_009/Illustration Friday: Canned, originally uploaded by speartoons.

Here is my post for Illustration Friday. Yes, I've been canned before. I prefer the term downsized. It sounds good to the waist.

Drawing a Day 8

Be careful when you put those sheets in the laundry.

Drawing a Day 007

Drawing a Day 007, originally uploaded by speartoons.

Drawing from sketchbook 0806, page 130-schnauzer
This was done in Adobe Illustrator. The outlines are a 2 point pressure brush. I drew the lines on a Wacom Intuos 3 tablet.

Top 10 Illustrator Tutorial Sites

Vandelay Design has a great post on the top 10 tutorial sites for Adobe Illustrator. This is a great resource. Too often, most of the tutorials focus on Photoshop. Adobe Illustrator definitely has advantages for graphics, illustration and cartooning.

Warping objects in Illustrator

Layers Magazine's web site has a great tutorial by Bert Monroy. He shows how you can use the warp tool in Adobe Illustrator to get realistic effects such as the wire mesh in this trash can illustration.

The nice thing about using the tool in Illustrator is you have greater control in the mesh grid and you can make the mesh looked banged up. I'm try this one out.

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