skittery splodgy shapes

[egypturnash]

I was idly looking around on DeviantArt and I noticed that dark_aldebaran had favorited pretty much all the drawings I did of raccoons. Somehow this made me decide to fool around in Illustrator with no pencil sketch, and draw a raccoon.

I like drawing raccoons!



I did some experimenting with simulated colored paper, but I couldn't convince Illustrator to make my inks opaque. Just some late night fooling around, you know? The background probably has floating rocks with trees on it because I ended up on Roger Dean's website the other week.

(And, of course, DA is being a bitch - or maybe it's that my upstream connection is being a pain again - and I can't get the image up on there. Figures.)

Comments

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the "cartooning skillz" bit came out kinda wrong. I should be in bed an hour ago. No insult was intended!

(Other drawings where I make heavy use of the pencil tool: ground foliage, entire image, layered fog shapes, layered art brushes everywhere, most of the figure. if you want to compare and contrast to ones that're mostly pen tool.)

[mister-wolf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the "cartooning skillz" bit came out kinda wrong. I should be in bed an hour ago. No insult was intended!

S'okay. I took it in the spirit in which it was intended. I hope. =;) I do really admire your work. The composition, the line quality, the willingness to experiment, it's all really great.

Anyway, thanks for the tips.

[thaily.livejournal.com]

The cherubs one is awesome.
A comic in that style would be so great.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

It was kinda related to some comics stuff prickvixen and I were fooling with, actually. Her script, my pencils and inks, her tones, but occasional changes to that division of labor... I flaked out on it when my life turned to crisis.

[thaily.livejournal.com]

That's a pity.
I selfishly hope you two will try again when things pick up.