LetterHeads — It’s Inking Time

The inking has begun! Also, I asked Gab to think of another name for these things. He came up with the genius LetterHeads. Thanks, Gab.

I traced these in Illustrator, and my plan is to color them in Photoshop once I have them all inked. You simply cannot put the cart before the horse. The cart is coloring and the horse is a horse.

Oh, and here’s a video of the first inking. As you can see, I started out experimenting with inking styles, but I think I landed upon one that will work out well:

I Hate Flossing Monster Video, Yay.

As a fun experiment on my day off from work, I video-screen-captured myself making today’s drawing in Illustrator using QuickTime Player’s screen recording feature. Unfortunately, QuickTime conked out for the coloring portion of the drawing in Photoshop.

But I got everything that I did in Illustrator – all the scintillating Bezier-ing with the pen tool. The Illustrator work took me an hour or so. I compressed it into a more watchable two minutes plus. Here she is, for those who like to watch other people use Illustrator, at a really fast pace.