Vision

    I obligated myself on twitter by giving a sneak peek of this digital illustration
so here it is!  Doing that forced me to finish it this evening.  I am glad I pushed
myself.  Sorry if there was any confusion today, should have explained when
posting earlier that it wasn't finished yet.
   This work was inspired by the #twoodle game on twitter, with the words
Siren and Vision.  I work in Illustrator, creating patterns as I did for textile
prints.  I love Illustrator but do realize there are limitations to it and am getting
slowly tempted by the shiny allure of Photoshop.
    Saw a video by https://twitter.com/TracyBishopArt demonstrating Manga Studio 5,
which looks interesting.  It was posted on her blog which she shares with other great
illustrators, so check them out!  http://www.simplymessingabout.com/search/label/video
Checked it out on Amazon and it is quite reasonable
yet similar to Photoshop so I may try it.  Now you may be remembering a little
rant I went on about how I was getting into traditional methods.  How imperfections
are nice, so many people are doing digital, etc.  I think it's fun to use both,
besides the fact that some of my work  seems better for digital
and vice versa.  Sometimes I even scan in hand sketched or painted elements and use
within digital as many other artists are doing.
    As I obsess over learning the business of children's book
illustration I know I may seem a little all over the place.  Learning is like that
for me.  Immersed in it is the only way to go, just have got to be organized,
set goals, stay focused and keep...my vision ;)