I dream of… Adobe Illustrator

In order to run the laser printer at TechShop you have to use either Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw. Since I'm already familiar with Photoshop, I decided to stick with the Adobe suite. I searched YouTube for the most helpful tutorials finding The Complete Beginner's Guide to Adobe Illutrator by tasty tuts. Its a great comprehensive guide for those of us who don't have the most stellar computer skills. It even comes with downloadable worksheets to test skills as you learn. 

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Initial Drawing 

Trace in Illustrator 

After watching all the videos and testing out some new skills I decided to try stencil & puzzle making again. I'm currently working on a project called American Freakshow, creating 10 characters to use for different art endeavors. The first one that was finished is The Mermaid, one sexy babe smoking bubble pipe underwater. 

Stencil on Patio Stone 

If you remember from my earlier posts, one of the reasons I had trouble with the puzzle idea before was because I uploaded a jpeg into illustrator and the laser cut around each individual piece. Brian then explained to me that I would have to make my own puzzle pieces using the pen tool. Round two of puzzle making went surprisingly well. I went with the freakshow idea and created a two headed anniversary present for my sweetie. 

 More Stencils!