Dani’s Videos #11: Digital Ink and Paint
This is a small line and color job done on the computer. I first created my drawing using Adobe Illustrator, then copied it into Photoshop to put some basic paint onto it.
For more information about this process, see my previous posts here:
http://danidraws.com/2006/12/13/video-notes-bake-sale-brush-tool/
http://danidraws.com/2007/01/08/creating-line-drawings-in-adobe-illustrator/
Download the video here: Digital Ink and Paint (Quicktime, 3:45, 12.41 MB)
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May 7th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Dani, it’s real cool and great tutorial, thanks for sharing
May 8th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Dani, I don’t think I have ever posted on your site, but I should have. Thank you for all of these tutorials and reviews. As a current illustration student, I find all of this stuff extremely helpful.
May 9th, 2007 at 5:01 am
Very good
I like very much your blog and your artwork
August 28th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Very good, Dani. i’m french, i undersand why can’t do some draw on illustrator…thanks
January 20th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
You are awsome. I now know how to ink in illustrator without even screwing around with the brush tilt . those simple little variation settings was all it took. I love this site. Thank you thank you, thank you.
July 10th, 2008 at 5:26 am
Ver nice drawing. Do you have any tricks for vectorizing the final image with colorfills?
July 26th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Hi Dani, I’ve got a little trouble with my Illustrator brush.
When I go to “Calligraphic Brush Options”, the only variation options for “Diameter” are Fixed and Random. A few others show up under them, including “Pressure”, but the type is light grey – they’re unavailable.
Any help? I’m using Illustrator CS3 on a Mac OSX Leopard (of course I’ve got a tablet, otherwise I wouldn’t be asking you about this).
July 31st, 2008 at 9:57 am
I don’t know, Catu. I would guess that Illustrator just isn’t recognizing your tablet for some reason. I could imagine that happening for older tablets, or tablets from obscure brands other than Wacom. If that’s not the case, I would try restarting Illustrator, restarting the computer, or reinstalling the tablet driver to see if that changes anything.
August 3rd, 2008 at 10:45 pm
I’m using a Wacom Bamboo Fun, which is a rather up-to-date model, and the glitch keeps showing up whenever I get Illustrator or my computer started, so I suppose I’ll reinstall my tablet. Thanks a lot!