The Ledge and Dairy Inn

[snodsy]

really nice line work, do you do this line work in illustrator? Do you use a tablet or mouse? My line work is driving my bonkers, I can't draw a good one in photoshop with my wacom, it's too wavy. Anyhow, looking forward to seeing you add the details.

[Meshon]

really nice line work, do you do this line work in illustrator? Do you use a tablet or mouse? My line work is driving my bonkers, I can't draw a good one in photoshop with my wacom, it's too wavy. Anyhow, looking forward to seeing you add the details.

Hey thanks! I did the line drawing quite awhile ago, for a Guild challenge, and I was just getting the hang of my tiny little Bamboo tablet. The original black and white was done in Illustrator. I was working out what the blob brush can do so there's a real mix of that and then just lines with the pen tool and the pencil tool. And the really straight lines I often apply a "roughen" effect to. The wood grain is all lines with a variable width profile applied.

Painting is happening in Photoshop because I like the way it looks and I'm really inexperienced with it, so… practice! Yay! At some point I'd like to do something similar purely in Photoshop, but I love my vectors so it's a daunting step.

cheers,
Meshon

[NathanC]

This is looking great Meshon, I really like the over all concept and the detail of the building is fantastic.