{"id":159,"date":"2003-02-10T09:10:42","date_gmt":"2003-02-10T17:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=159"},"modified":"2005-09-23T17:27:32","modified_gmt":"2005-09-24T01:27:32","slug":"dancing-to-a-new-toon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"Dancing To a New Toon"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I think I’ve found an illustration style with which I can live for a while.<\/p>\n

When I first started doing digital artwork, I experimented a lot with the monochromatic style<\/a> in Paint Shop Pro<\/a> or Photoshop<\/a>, in which I would flood-fill a canvas with a single color and then dodge and burn the hell out of it. Then I dallied a bit in a quickie natural media style<\/a> while fooling around in Painter<\/a>, but I didn’t really like the results much. Then I combined the two very different techniques and came up with a better style<\/a> of illustration.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I was getting paid to do black and white line art—toons for business newsletters, you know, that sort of thing. I was also doing simple vector art in Illustrator<\/a> for some of my graphic design work, but really nothing to write home about, mostly stuff I never even bothered to put in an online gallery.<\/p>\n

Then I moved on to 3D, Poser<\/a> and Bryce<\/a> specifically, and forgot all about drawing with the Wacom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

…until I went back to my roots, back to digital doodling in Photoshop. This time, I combined all the different styles I’d been developing—the toons, the vector paths, the 3D textures, the coloring, smudging and airbrushing, everything… and there you go, the style of Alien Barbecue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

…which led to other things—the topsy turvy images on this log and to this<\/a>, Broch’s new look. Go tell him how you like it, why don’t you? The toon, I mean, not… well… I mean the toon, okay? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\nShare this post:

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So I think I’ve found an illustration style with which I can live for a while. When I first started doing digital artwork, I experimented a lot with the monochromatic style in Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop, in which I would flood-fill a canvas with a single color and then dodge and burn the hell out of it. Then I dallied a bit in a quickie natural media style while fooling around in Painter, but I didn’t really like the…<\/p>\n

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