'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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All That's Needed For Evil To Triumph Is for Good Men To Do Nothing
'All That's Needed For Evil To Triumph Is for Good Men To Do Nothing' | Daily Drawing #315
A timely quote.
I heard this one recently, but can't seem to find proper attribution. The common attribution is to Edmund Burke, but that's disputed. There's also several versions of the quote, most of them substituting the word "needed" with the word “necessary".
The message is the same, either way.
Production Notes:
When assembling long-form sentences or quotes, it's helpful to break the words down into readable chunks. I'll do a few loose versions in the sketchbook, then do a larger sketch as a base for the final drawing. In this instance, I wanted loose, easy to read, bold letterforms so I sketched out the letters using a Tombow Dual Brush Pen. I then placed a sheet of Bienfang Graphics 360 Marker Paper over the original sketch and traced the letterforms, adding weight and emphasis to the letters as I went along. The marker paper works well because it's transparent enough to trace through, but not fragile like ordinary tracing paper. It also holds up to heavy inking.
Tools:
Bienfang Graphics 360 Marker Paper
Kuretake Bimoji Felt Tip Brush Pen
Kuretake Fude Brush Pen
Tombow Dual Brush Pen
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Why Must You Rain on My Parade?
'Why Must You Rain on My Parade?' | Daily Drawing #314
Lots of rain in Philly this week, I'm just happy it's not snow. I'll gladly take a few days of gloom during the week. I do my best work when I'm not distracted by the siren song of a sunny day.
The last few weeks I've been doing a lot of lettering and illustration on the iPad Pro. While the device is super handy and an amazing creative tool, nothing beats putting the lead to paper.
I did a practice sketch in pencil, cleaned it up a little, then just traced it in ink. One pass, no retouching, no photoshoppery. Feels good to work on paper.
Tools:
Kuretake Bimoji Felt Tip Brush Pen
Staedtler Mars 780 Technical Mechanical Pencil, 2mm
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Nap All Day, Sleep All Night
'Nap All Day, Sleep All Night' | Daily Drawing #313
The complete opposite of my typical day.
Tools:
Palomino Blackwing 725 Pencil
Staedtler Mars 780 Technical Mechanical Pencil, 2mm
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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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Febrrruary
'Febrrruary' | Daily Drawing #310
A mild December and January lulled us into a false sense of security. Winter officially came and kicked our ass this weekend.
See you in the Spring. If you need me, I'll be under that pile of blankets.
Tools:
Apple iPad Pro
Apple Pencil
Procreate for iPad
Photo is of my actual frozen backyard.
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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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Snow Load!
'Snow Load' | Daily Drawing #306
Due to the upcoming snow event, the Governor has declared a Snow Load emergency.
Your local liquor store, bar or beer distributor will provide further instruction.
This is not a test.
Tools:
Tombow Dual Brush Pen
Apple Pencil
iPad Pro
Procreate for iPad
Photoshop [desktop]
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Source: snow load
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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