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The nice thing about digital illustration is you can integrate analog methods into your creative process at any time. This tutorial will show you how to go about creating the majority of your art in analog form and then texturizing and coloring it in digital to produce your final art.

Included in this download is a layered CS2 Photoshop file that you’ll be able to dissect and see exactly how the art was built and what settings were done for each layer.

(Tutorial Includes Notes in both ‘English’ and ‘Español’.)

Keywords: Editorial, Vine, Head, Textures, Brush, Flower

File Size: 33.4 MB

Stencil art is a very viral form of street art. Widely used to voice opinions on a wide range of subjects within cultures worldwide and often used to voice dissent against the powers that be politically.

It’s a graphic form of graffiti and is very pedestrian in it’s approach and complexity for ease of application thus facilitating it’s ability to multiply quickly and be seen by more people. Even though it’s use is fundamentally propaganda in nature it still lends itself to digital illustration quite easily.

This tutorial will take you from my source of inspiration to the actual contruction and application of the stencil art. Included in this download is a layered CS2 Photoshop file which will show how I go about building my reference.

(Tutorial Includes Notes in both ‘English’ and ‘Español’.)

Keywords: Stencil, M, Street, Viral

File Size: 13.1 MB

Same as ‘Doodle Sheet 1 & 2′ just a new template and sample images included.

Exercise your creative muscle. There are eight wiggly lines in the ‘Doodle_Sheets.pdf’ included in this download. Your assignment is to draw a doodle incorporating the pre-existing line into your doodle. What you’ll end up with is eight individual doodles in all. There is no right or wrong, good or bad just have fun and allow yourself to be creative.

Don’t look for the easy way out, force your mind to explore other possibilities. Any orientation whether vertical, horizontal, upside down or side ways is acceptable.

Note: These exercises were developed for a class setting but can easily work for the individual. If you use this for a group of people make sure to share everyones work at the end, it fun to see how everyone interpreted the same themes and is usually good for a few laughs as well.

Keywords: Creative, Exercise, Doodle, Wiggly

File Size: 908 K

This simple download will remind you how doodles can be used in a variety of creative ways and serve as final art even. Whether you want to become a full blown illustrator or not every creative should doodle.

Keywords: Doodle, Drawing, Exercise

File Size: 4.1 MB

Developing illustrative logos that are based on an actual person can be tricky. When creating realistic stylized human features you can’t just draw what you see, many elements have to be somewhat exaggerated or minimized to actually achieve what you’re truly after.

One well known example of this type of illustrative logo work can be found with KFC. But the colonel has been dead for decades and won’t be complaining if his hair looks wonky or the final mark isn’t flattering to him personally. On this project I created a logo for a blues artist and in the process you’ll see how I deal with touchy issues regarding the characters physical appearance all the while creating a mark both the client and I are happy with.

(Tutorial Includes Notes in both ‘English’ and ‘Español’.)

Keywords: Rev, Blues, Music, Tony, Stylized

File Size: 8.9 MB

Creating a logo for a company that thrives on creativity seems like it would be a no-brainer project. Well that isn’t always the case. This illustrative logo for an italian animation studio will show you a very quick turnaround and the design politics we sometimes have to deal with in our artistic pursuit to create the best work we can.

(Tutorial Includes Notes in both ‘English’ and ‘Español’.)

Keywords: Bocca, Cat, Big, Character

File Size: 10.2 MB

In this tutorial you’ll see how a simple app like ‘Image Ready’ (Included with Photoshop) makes it very easy to create low-tech animations using your artwork. It’s not broadcast worthy, lacks the fluid smoothness of flash and won’t end up looking photo realistic like CG or 3D, but it’s a whole lot of fun and you’ll end up creating a new level of visual attraction that I fondly call ‘Doodle Movies’.

Watch as I go from a quick doodle to a finished doodle movie in no time at all. Included in this download is source files for both CS2 Photoshop and CS2 Image Ready.

(Tutorial Includes Notes in both ‘English’ and ‘Español’.)

Keywords: Animation, Doodle, Movie, Gif, Image Ready

File Size: 9.9 MB