5 March 08

New medium

American crow, digital I’m pretty comfortable with Adobe Photoshop and am now very competent in InDesign, but I’m terrible at Illustrator. Which is too bad, because it’s a very powerful sketching tool.

I drew a sketch of a crow outside my window, then drew it freehand in Illustrator with the pencil tool. Minor tweaking only — this took about 5 minutes.

I hope to improve. I won’t do much digital work on Bird by Bird but this is a good skill to develop…

Posted by at 06:06 PM in Bird of the Day | Link |

  1. I don’t have anything near your sketching skills, but “drawing” in vector graphics allows me to fake it pretty good sometimes. I used Macromedia FreeHand for a number of years and got pretty good with it. However, that program was not taken over by Adobe when they bought out Macromedia. I’ve only done a couple things with Illustrator… it is not a user-friendly program (not that Adobe is noted for that anyway,) but the user interface is primitive and hard to use, IMHO.


    — Bosque Bill    6. March 2008, 08:00    Link

  2. This is fabulous! It reminds me a bit of Egyptian art too.


    — Teresa    6. March 2008, 10:16    Link

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