I am walking on air! There was one download of my check pattern art on Dreamstime and I made money!! My first sale as a microstock vector artist. So happy! More to come yay! Here’s the image that was just purchased. To sell your image on dreamstime you can to go to this link. Now [...]
Here’s my drawing of “fluid” for Illustration Friday! Drawing the paper towel was a challenge. I used Illustrator’s 3D bevel tool. It still doesn’t look right! If anybody has a suggestion I’d appreciate it! The fluid is crying because it’s getting sucked by a paper towel! Oh no!
I think I mastered more illustrator techniques in the last 2 weeks than in the Illustrator course I took in art school. It’s only my fault since I didn’t pay attention in class. My teacher even reached out to me to tell me she barely passed me and that I better re-study if I ever [...]
When you try to save your beautiful illustrator production by using “Save for Web”, you might get the error message “image exceeds the Size Save for Web”. Check this blog out, it teaches you to bypass this! http://rwillustrator.blogspot.com/2008/03/of-document-sizes-and-crop-areas.html
Go to Graphic Styles and click on the “New Graphic Style” button. Then drag the new style while pressing alt option over to the default graphic style.
I created another cake for my coworkers. I drew a caricature of the whole team and took them to Save-On-Foods and got them printed on the cake! It looked really really good (ok self praise here) and my coworkers were soOOOOOOOOO happy!!! I got that “Good Feeling” and felt that EVERYWHERE with EVERYONE. Man, cartoons [...]
I felt super tired today I almost felt like this cupcake…a fried cupcake lol. I felt a bit better (and then I typed…”bitter”…OMG I am seriously tired!) drawing this fried/crazy cupcake I think a cupake will have this kind of face if it got fried or if it was crazy. Maybe I’ll make this my [...]
I had lots of fun at the Festival du Bois – the largest french-canadian festival in BC. It’s held every year around this time of the year in Maillardville, which is in Coquitlam, BC, with the largest French Canadian (or Canadien!) population in BC. One thing I loved the most is the hot maple syrup [...]
I was feeling a bit homesick today so I drew my mom and dad’s caricature. I sent it to them I wonder what they will think! I personally like it Updated: March 8 2012 – I made my mom into vector art! And now it’s on Dreamstime yayyyyyy! If you like the drawing you can [...]
This quote I found on the page http://blog.drawn.ca/post/2928350595/the-advice-i-like-to-give-young-artists-or really motivated me again…I just have to start drawing again I landed on this page after finally trying out twitter, and somehow ended up on Sherm Cohen’s tweet. I didn’t know who he was but he is a storyboard artist and of course I find out [...]
