I just added a work in progress album for showcasing the stuff I’m currently working on. Currently I have a screenshot of the second part of my George Bush Novelty currency project. The scroll work took a lot longer than I thought it would. It was just painstaking work. I thought I could build some custom brushes to make the job easier but I couldn’t get them to look right. In the end I just grunted it out with the pen tool and a few custom brushes for the leaf veins.
Now I’m working on a couple different concepts for the inset art. I’m waiting till I purchase the Cutline plugin for photoshop so I can give some of my graphics the engraved look. I was using a demo from Panopticum but it didn’t work exactly the way I wanted it to. I’m now looking at buying Cutline from Andromeda. This looks exactly like what I need for this project. Most the work will still be done in Illustrator though. I do rasterize some of the art and apply affects in Photoshop and then save it out as transparent pgn files for placement into Illustrator. So far I’m really happy with the way it’s looking. After I’m done I plan on combining both pieces into one piece of art for a final presentation.
Oh, while you are here, check out the blog roll for some fantastic artists. I really like Brian Denham’s vector tutorials. He is a genius with the pencil tool. Check out this awesome video of him drawing.