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Illustration Friday: Flavor
This is my first foray into Adobe Illustrator. I've been a Freehand man for 10 years, and because Adobe bought Macromedia, I'm sore afraid that Freehand is going the way of the Dodo. So, I thought I'd better learn this program and learn to love it. Since it's my first, it took me 3 times as long to illustrate it than it would have otherwise.
Vanilla is still my favorite.
My 7 year old son and 4 year old daughter got into the spirit of Illustration Friday this week along side me. They just love their daddy.
This is my son's. It says "The Funnest Place in the World is Candy Land." Everything here is made of candy. Chocolate sticks holding up the sign, which is made of a chocolate bar. The rollercoaster is made of two candycanes, and has a gummy worm for the car. The seats are made of straight candycanes. The wheels are Life Savers. There is a trampoline made from a cake, and a gingerbread man is standing next to it. The clouds are made of frosting, and the sky is water. The grass is green Jolly Ranchers, and the dirt is chocolate ice cream.
This is my daughter's. She says that it's a princess giving a prince a brain M&M because, apparently, his brain is asleep. Those are M&Ms lining the bottom in a pattern as well.
Vanilla is still my favorite.My 7 year old son and 4 year old daughter got into the spirit of Illustration Friday this week along side me. They just love their daddy.
This is my son's. It says "The Funnest Place in the World is Candy Land." Everything here is made of candy. Chocolate sticks holding up the sign, which is made of a chocolate bar. The rollercoaster is made of two candycanes, and has a gummy worm for the car. The seats are made of straight candycanes. The wheels are Life Savers. There is a trampoline made from a cake, and a gingerbread man is standing next to it. The clouds are made of frosting, and the sky is water. The grass is green Jolly Ranchers, and the dirt is chocolate ice cream.
This is my daughter's. She says that it's a princess giving a prince a brain M&M because, apparently, his brain is asleep. Those are M&Ms lining the bottom in a pattern as well.
posted by garth bruner at 10:43 PM
11 Comments:
Love the ice cream tower. Great candy land. I play that most often with my daughter. She beats the pants off me every time. Well done. Cheers!
My nephew back in NY has done the same thing!!! He is having problems getting the illustrations to me to post...but he is still drawing weekly!
Isn't it great to be the hero!
Fantastic illos!!!
garth, love your illo! it is darling and so well done! your kids are already taking after you and they are so creative!!! I love any pictures that involve candy and icecream...
Many could and vould not resist such a graet icecream. Crativity in the family. It is a nice thing to sit with your children drawing after a nice icecream. Happy New Year!
These are all great! Artistic talent and imagination clearly run in the family! I am completely impressed with your first time Illustrator illo...that program is always so hard for me to use. This turned out great, and the ice cream looks so good...I am tempted to break my new year's diest resolution:> Happy New Year:>
Garth,
Looks great my friend! Very cool that you are tackling Illustrator- I love that program beyond words- if you need any tips let me know. Cool to see your kids drawing along with you. I'm going to sign up for this Illustration Friday thing this week and get the ball rolling!
Later!
how sweet!!! your kiddos work too??!!!! i love your ice cream illo--- tooo tooo cute!!!! ever have HOMEMADE vanilla ice cream?? i make it once a yr cuz it gets pricey but believe me, it is the bestest in the world :)
that would make a cute promo postcard
candy is the best flavor! i love M&Ms. i could eat them till they popped out my ears.
Love your illo. I'm such a sucker for kids art - SO sweet!!
This is nice work Garth. And your two young-uns, too.
I use Adobe Illustrator for all of my computer illustration work nowadays and I really like it. I feel like I can legitimately judge between the two because I once worked for a Children's dinnerware company (www.zak.com) that exclusively used Freehand to create the art for their products, so I knew it well, too.
The think I like most about Illustrator is that Illustrating is what it's made for. Sure it can do type with tabs and stuff, but so can Indesign, which is what I use if I'm doing a layout. To me, Freehand seems to have a bit too much of "trying to be everything to everybody" to the extent that it ends up being confusing and slow. (I hope I'm not offending you).
Anyhow, good luck on making the transition. I don't think you'll regret it. If you run into problems, shoot me an email and I'll help you out.
Later.
Hey Garth -
I hear you about Freehand and learning Illustrator. I'm in exactly the same boat. I just find that everything isn't where it "should" be, and all of my little tricks just disappear in Illustrator. Every time I pick it up, I walk away frustrated. So, I'm still using Freehand, though like you, I feel compelled to just bite the bullet, and use Illustrator. Good luck.
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