'Feelin' Salty' | Daily Drawing #349
Everyone on both sides is feelin' quite salty after the election.
Tools: Adobe Draw / iPad Pro / Apple Pencil. Background texture added in Photoshop.
Go Vote
No excuses. Go vote.
Tools: ProCreate App / iPad Pro / Apple Pencil
Build Me Up, Tear Me Down
'Build Me Up, Tear Me Down' | Daily Drawing #323
As in Jenga, or Love.
Tools: Paper Mate Flair, Kuretake Bimoji Brush Pen.
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Coffee: Black Like My Soul
'Coffee: Black Like My Soul' | Daily Drawing #321
Another loose illustration using a Zebra Medium Brush Pen.
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Always Trust Your Gut
'Always Trust Your Gut' | Daily Drawing #320
Loose lettering with a Zebra Medium Brush Pen.
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Fight to the End
'Fight to the End' | Daily Drawing #319
Loose brush marker sketch, tightened up with pencil outlines, then vector traced.
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Let's Build a Wall
'Let's Build a Wall' | Daily Drawing #318
It will be the most beautiful wall. It will really be something.
Tools: iPad Pro, Procreate, Apple Pencil
Leap of Faith
'Leap of Faith' | Daily Drawing #317
Tools:
Sakura Pigma Micron
Sakura Pigma Brush Marker
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
'Buy the Ticket. Take the Ride' | Daily Drawing #316
Quote from Hunter S. Thompson.
Production Notes:
Letterforms sketched with Tombow Dual Brush Pen. Traced with tracing paper using a Kuretake Fude Brush Pen. I shot the traced image on my phone then imported into Photoshop for the final composite. Looking closely, you can see the fill-in strokes that I wanted to retain in the final illustration.
Tools:
Tombow Dual Brush Pen
Kuretake Fude Brush Pen
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Because Science!
'Because Science!' | Daily Drawing #312
Bro, do you even science?
This started out as just the hand-lettered script type and turned into a vintage-style space poster.
Because, science.
Tools:
The script type was hand-lettered then traced in Adobe Illustrator.
Icons, type, shapes and background also created in Illustrator then brought in Photoshop for the final composition.
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Cruel Candy Hearts
'Got You Some Candy' | Daily Drawing #311
"Happy Valentine's Day, hon. Got you some candy."
Production Notes:
The hearts created in Adobe Illustrator and repurposed from a Valentine's Day infographic I did with SUMO Heavy.
The lettering was done with a Kuretake Bimoji Felt Tip Brush Pen on paper, then shot using the Adobe Capture app on my phone.
This app is a real time-saver, especially for quick illustrations like this. Capture allows you to shoot and store shapes and then sync them to your Creative Cloud library as vector images. I was then able to pull the 'shape' (The hand-drawn line of type) from the Library directly into Photoshop where the images of the lettering, the hearts and the background were combined.
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Seize the Day Tomorrow
'Seize the Day Tomorrow' | Daily Drawing #309
Why do today what you can eventually do at some point tomorrow or even by Thursday but most definitely by the end of the week if things don't get too crazy.
Tools:
Apple iPad Pro
Apple Pencil
Procreate for iPad
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Squirmish
'Squirmish' | Daily Drawing #308
Another made up word by Word Salad Master Chef™, Sarah Palin.
Tools:
Apple iPad Pro
Apple Pencil
Procreate for iPad
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Crazy Cat Lady
'Crazy Cat Lady' | Daily Drawing #306
A quick 2-color lettering/illustration with the Apple Pencil and iPad Pro.
(No offense to the cat people, I just needed an excuse to draw cartoon cats.)
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The Best Trail is the One You Create
'The Best Trail is the One You Create' | Daily Drawing #305
I've been spending a lot of time drawing and getting used to using the Apple Pencil/iPad Pro setup, but today I woke at 5 and decided I needed to spend a little quiet time with the pencil and paper.
Tools: Blackwing Pencil, Paper Mate Flair
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Moist
'Moist' | Daily Drawing #304
The most hated word in the world.
Tools:
Apple iPad Pro
Apple Pencil
Procreate for iPad
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The Coffee Achiever
'The Coffee Achiever' | Daily Drawing #303
Coffee. Make it black, like my heart and soul.
Those of a certain age will remember the ad campaign for coffee in the early 80's called 'The Coffee Achievers'. For some reason The National Coffee Association felt the need to spend millions on an ad campaign featured celebrities and athletes drinking coffee. “The band Heart drinks coffee, and they’re awesome, so maybe I should try some of this stuff!”
The thinking of the time was that coffee was for old people, and old people die so who will buy the coffee? So their ad agency created a campaign featuring an elite band of super coffee drinkers like ELO, David Bowie, Cicily Tyson to name a few, to get ‘the kids’ thinking coffee was cool.
The ads were hokey and seem very dated now, but there was a time when ‘The Coffee Achiever’ was made to be something you strived for. Because who wouldn't want to sit and have coffee with Kurt Vonnegut?
Tools:
Apple iPad Pro
Apple Pencil
Procreate for iPad
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Brooklyn, NYC
'Brooklyn, NYC' | Daily Drawing #302
More lettering fun with the Apple Pencil/iPad Pro setup. I did a quick sketch of the lettering with a Tombow Dual Brush Pen on paper, then shot a photo of it. I imported the photo into Procreate and did a trace and clean up. Procreate can export layered PSD files, so I sent the file to my Google Drive and pulled into Photoshop on my MacBook Pro, where the final composite with the bridge photograph was made.
Tools:
Apple iPad Pro
Apple Pencil
Procreate for iPad
Tombow Dual Brush Pen
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If You Don't Start, You Will Fail
'If You Don't Start, You Will Fail" | Daily Drawing #301
It’s simple - if the car never leaves the garage, you have zero chance of winning the race.
Fear and perfectionism stop us from doing the things we want. If you stay frozen in your safe little place, most likely that’s where you’ll be in a year from now. You’re better off trying and falling on your stupid face than just sitting there in a sad pile of wishes. What’s the worst that can happen? You’re back where you started (which is exactly where you are now). But, what if that one thing you keep wishing for...what if even half of it came to pass? You’d be further along and better off than you are right now.
What’s holding YOU back?
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Tools:
I used a Tombow Dual Brush Pen for the rough lettering, then scanned the lettering and vector traced in Illustrator.
Tombow Dual Brush Pen
Adobe Illustrator
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Nice Day for a Run
'Nice Day for a Run' | Daily Drawing #300
This is the first stab at an illustration with the Apple Pencil on an iPad Pro, using the Procreate app. I’ve used Procreate in the past, but with mixed success due to the poor choices of styluses available at the time. The Apple Pencil really changes the game. Palm rejection was the main problem for drawing on a tablet, and they’ve solved it. The Pencil itself is sleek, has a nice weight and feels natural in the hand (that’s what she said). I was up and running within 10 minutes out of the box and was able to bang together this quick drawing.
My complaints so far are minimal: The Pencil itself is a beautiful, almost delicate object - and is perfectly round and rolls right off the desk. A piece of masking tape at the top, like a little flag, solved this problem. Storage is also an issue – there’s no way to clip this to the iPad or the keyboard, and the Pen itself is about 6 ¾” tall, so you can't exactly slide it into your shirt pocket. I’m sure we’ll see third-party solutions soon enough and these concerns aren’t deal breakers.
I’m really impressed so far with the Pencil/iPad Pro and look forward to seeing what I can create.
Tools:
Apple iPad Pro
Apple Pencil
Procreate for iPad
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