'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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'Take Action' | Daily Drawing #262
Testing out a workflow using the using the Adobe Shape app. Lettered with Zebra WF3 Scientific Brush (Medium).
'Eat Your Problems for Breakfast' | Daily Drawing #213.
Tools: Palomino Blackwing Pencil
'Lost Time is Never Found Again' | Daily Drawing #203.
A quote from Benjamin Franklin.
Tools: Sakura Micron Pens, Photoshop. Stock photo via Unsplash.
'Your Excuses Suck' | Daily Drawing #59.
Missed posting yesterday's drawing. On the East Coast we were hit with (yet another) Winter storm and this fucker dumped a lot of snow accompanied by some bitter cold. It took a while to dig out, and unfortunately I had to deal with a roof leak. My favorite way to spend a Friday night!
But hey, that sounds like an excuse. And excuses suck.
Tools: Flair pens and Sharpee markers. Colorized in Photoshop.
"Done is Better Than Perfect" (unless you're a surgeon or a rocket scientist)
Tools: Zig Drawing Pen 0.5 on Vellum. Scanned, composed in Photoshop.
(I got up extra early this morning to knock this one out...)
Procrastinate Now! (write a post about it later!)
Hand-lettered with Micron 1, scanned/colored in Photoshop. I started with smaller thumbnails until I got the letterforms the way I wanted them. I then scanned the thumbnail and printed it larger and did a clean lightbox tracing from that.
Another lettering project with a phrase captured in the sketchbook from an unknown source. I'm sure this phrase was born from some podcast or book or blog post dealing with time management or procrastination and I felt the need to capture it, because it's so spot-on. Making excuses just takes away from time you could be doing. There is no try, only do. I sketched the letters quickly with a loose set of characters, then took a photo of the sketch. This saves tons of time when your're tracing the sketch in Illustrator and not cleaning up lines in Photoshop.
I shot the sketch at my drawing table with my iPhone, and since I had Photo Stream turned on, the sketch was already in iPhoto when I was ready to start tracing. I simply pulled the photo from iPhoto into Photoshop, cropped and resized (to make the file smaller) and then dropped the photo into Illustrator. I locked the photo onto it's own layer, set up a new layer for lines and begin tracing.
Since I used a very loose (and not very detailed) style of lettering, the tracing went very quickly. I only made a few modifications from the original sketch, capitalizing the letter 'A' throughout and the 'E' in 'Money'. I colored the letters in Illustrator until I got just the right color combo. This color selection was pretty much arbitrary, but I liked it. Obvious choices of shades of green just weren't working for me.
I then dragged the grouped letters into Photoshop as a Smart Object. This way I can compose a high resolution file and backgorund in Photoshop and then export to whatever size I need. I also still have the separate file of the the traced letters to repurpose or use on another size document.
