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So leave this blog at once, and promise never to return!
Thanks!
-Brad
pss... www.bradmcginty.com is my website. (In case you didn't see the link above)
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Monday, November 5, 2007
Eh, It’s Monday. Why not go ahead and post two times… This is another pin up girl for the book mentioned below. This will probably be used as the cover to the next issue of paper pusher too (that’s why there is so much dead space around her). I gotta give myself mad props for that gun, I mean Just look at it. Wow.
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Hey! Hey! Day number two. Today I'm just posting this drawing of Dr Internet I did for our soon to be up and running video site. You'll probably be seeing a lot more pics of props and art from the show as the weeks roll by. Stay tuned!
THE WORST WAY TO DRAW ON EARTH:
I should probably say that while I'm not a big fan of gradients, I do prefer them in illustrator over any way I know (so far at least) to create outlines. It might have to do with the fact that when I draw by hand, I focus so much on line quality, that this is kind of like a little vectorized vacation for me. I still find drawing on the computer a big pain in the ass. I'm using a mouse and not a wacom tablet (which I have). Maybe one day I will learn to love it or at least like it, but for now it stays in the closet. So I've been sketching in photoshop using a light blue (just like I would with a blue pencil in the real world) For some reason this color seems to be easiest for me to rough in. I like the idea of red, but it just looks like scribbles to me. Here is the "blue line" sketch of this drawing i did with the mouse:
Sometimes I'll refine it with red but that is only if it gets too hairy, but even when I do, I still keep the blue lines around when I bring it in illustrator. I still prefer this to actually drawing on paper and then tracing it in illustrator, Partially because I end up liking the pencils so much more than the "watered down" vector version. But when I draw like this (with the mouse in photoshop) It gets the idea across in way I understand, but yet still looks like crap enough that It can only improve by being traced off in illustrator. Which is what I did next:
Bam! there it is. I changed the regular cop to a "Bobbie" and moved it around a little. I ended up flipping Dr Internet around for better composition and kept messing with the car too much. then I dropped in the background just as a place holder, as this will probably be animated (slightly).
So there it is, a drawing I don't really like, and now that I've shown you how to make a drawing that you don't like, you can open up all your fancy Adobe crap and spend a few hours on a drawing that would have taken you 30 minutes to complete by hand. I love vectors!
THE WORST WAY TO DRAW ON EARTH:I should probably say that while I'm not a big fan of gradients, I do prefer them in illustrator over any way I know (so far at least) to create outlines. It might have to do with the fact that when I draw by hand, I focus so much on line quality, that this is kind of like a little vectorized vacation for me. I still find drawing on the computer a big pain in the ass. I'm using a mouse and not a wacom tablet (which I have). Maybe one day I will learn to love it or at least like it, but for now it stays in the closet. So I've been sketching in photoshop using a light blue (just like I would with a blue pencil in the real world) For some reason this color seems to be easiest for me to rough in. I like the idea of red, but it just looks like scribbles to me. Here is the "blue line" sketch of this drawing i did with the mouse:
Sometimes I'll refine it with red but that is only if it gets too hairy, but even when I do, I still keep the blue lines around when I bring it in illustrator. I still prefer this to actually drawing on paper and then tracing it in illustrator, Partially because I end up liking the pencils so much more than the "watered down" vector version. But when I draw like this (with the mouse in photoshop) It gets the idea across in way I understand, but yet still looks like crap enough that It can only improve by being traced off in illustrator. Which is what I did next:
Bam! there it is. I changed the regular cop to a "Bobbie" and moved it around a little. I ended up flipping Dr Internet around for better composition and kept messing with the car too much. then I dropped in the background just as a place holder, as this will probably be animated (slightly).So there it is, a drawing I don't really like, and now that I've shown you how to make a drawing that you don't like, you can open up all your fancy Adobe crap and spend a few hours on a drawing that would have taken you 30 minutes to complete by hand. I love vectors!
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Happy Halloween everybody! What a great way to start off my new blog! Today I’m posting this drawing:
Her name is Angsty the teenage Witch, and she thinks you look like a total moron. She’s 17 and has a boyfriend named Trey who is the lead singer of the band my life on trial. He’s 32, and buys her peppermint schnapps and mike’s hard lemonades whenever she wants. Trey lives with his parents, but it’s just so he can focus on his “music” (he doesn’t want to be some “fascist corporate zombie slave”). She would date guys at her school, but they’re all too “immature” for her. People tell her she looks at least 22 all the time (A lie). She also likes going to the mall? I dunno…I’m just making all this stuff up. I just drew this yesterday to get some more practice with illustrator (which I’m still pretty new at). I just figured out how to use the patterns fill, which is neat. Maybe tomorrow I’ll post some of my superman designs.
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