Today's workshop with Rob Flowers focussed on refining work from yesterdays workshop. He taught us lots of valuable tricks for drawing on Adobe Illustrator. This was very useful as I have not had any experience using this program.
I imported my scans from yesterday's workshop into the program and began to draw the outlines. As suggested by Rob, I did the outlines in red to make them easier to see. I put the line work on a separate layer, just as I would do on photoshop.
The next step was to add colour. I used the blob brush tool, adjusting it's thickness by double-clicking on the icon. I created separate layers corresponding to how I wanted to layer the colour. Once the colour was added, the image really came to life!
I then began working on the second frame. For this one, I needed to use lines with thinner ends. To do this I had to click the white pointer and select the anchor of the line, moving it to my desired thickness. I also highlighted the main focus of this drawing using black lines, and making the background lines a slightly faded colour of grey/green.
I did not finish my drawing in the workshop but this is how far I got. I decided to layer the green on the bushes with 3 different shades and I really like the effect that this created.
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