Feline Anthropormorphism

I can’t remember where I saw it, but I ran across a collection of paintings of cats, dressed as little humans. Surprisingly, it wasn’t as creepy as you might think. Seeing as how we have more than our fare share of pets, I thought creating an illustrated version of our own herd may make for a good Christmas gift for my wife, so I set off to draw our cats. Besides the difficulty of illustrating them so...

Scraggly Cat

While on the plane to San Francisco I had some time to get to know the Sketchbook Pro app a little better. While perusing the daily Fab.com sale listings, I came across a scraggly old cat illustration for sale. What with the great texture in the fur and background, I thought it would make for a decent first-run with the drawing app. I’m much better with a digital pencil than I am with a digital paintbrush: I...

Another Inspire Pro test

Still trying to work out the nuances of the Inspire Pro iPad app. I’ve never been much of a painter, so while this gets the job done, it’s not really my medium of choice. Will probably give Autodesk’s Sketchbook Pro a shot.

Gimme a hint

A friend asked me to help design a ring she wanted, with the intention of leaving the illustration out someplace where he might find it. Subtle, I guess. Sketchbook Pro has some nice pre-designed paintbrushes that helped make the background a little more interesting, so that was...

Puppets, via Sketchbook Pro

Painted myself into a corner, as it were, with the Inspire Pro app. I needed to do some detailed work on a puppet theater calendar cover I was working on, and while the lightheartedness of the painting was exactly what I wanted, I found myself needing more control on the details. Exported the Inspire version so I could import it into Sketchbook Pro, and had to learn on the fly. There are some pieces I wasn’t...