The rise of the machines

by Patsyfox on June 15, 2014

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The Terminator reference may be a little over-dramatic in relation to the prevalence of digital illustration these days, but what can I say – I love pencils!  The answer for me as always is to meet half way – hand illustration meets photoshop.  So in a first for The Drawing Salon, today I held a full-day intensive workshop on colouring your hand-drawn image using photoshop.

Like all areas of my life, I jammed in at least four-times what the average content would be, and sure, when we got to the bit about creating your own patterns to use with the pattern stamp people’s brains did start exploding onto the walls like a Tarantino movie, but eh – it’s how I roll.  Everyone left with smoking hot images and I’m pretty sure they will have forgiven me by Monday morning.  They just may not have come down from the sugar high from all the chocolate.

That’s my demo image above, a little rough but cute.  I’ll hold this workshop again in August, but over 2 days, so less blood is shed.