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I first used FreeHand back in 1991 and ever since it has been my sole application for creating digital design and illustration in terms of vector graphics. The software had it’s glory days “Version 8″ and it’s not so glorious days “Version 10″ and then it’s sudden and immediate death when Adobe bought out Macromedia in 2006.

Even though the hand writing was on the wall I continued to use FreeHand and didn’t plan on switching until someone pulled it from my cold dead fingers. That is until I was contacted by a certain agency who had a certain client named “Adobe.”

Suffice it to say this tutorial is my personal switcher story from FreeHand to Illustrator and contains the good, the bad and the ugly details of both apps. Enjoy.


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

Keywords: FreeHand, Adobe, Illustrator, Switcher

File Size: 21 MB

I don’t do a ton of pro-bono work but this was for a good cause. A Diabetes fundraiser poster with a jungle theme. They asked if I’d specifically illustrate a “White Tiger” for them.
Even though my work schedule was very busy I agreed to help them out.

I’ve illustrated more cartoony tiger characters before but never one like this and never a “White Tiger” which was a bit challenging due to the color limitations. I was happy with how it turned out but unfortunately the client thought the Tiger was too aggressive and ghosted me on the project and wouldn’t return my emails? (No good deed goes unpunished)

Even though I wasn’t able to grab this Tiger by it’s tail, you still get to benefit from my misfortune since I did manage to document the creation of the art for this site. So enjoy.

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

Keywords: Tiger, Animal, Jungle

File Size: 17 MB