Saturday Art-First Digital Pieces!

Hi, M³ here! Today's the first day back to the art blog! And so to kick it off, here are two sample of my first digital art done on Illustrator (I'm still learning, so much of the first stuff won't be anything too stellar-still experimenting with exporting stuff as well).

Valentyne: This is the first little bit of vector art I did that I actually felt proud of. Being someone who isn't quite adept to technology as my millennial peers, learning Illustrator has been difficult at times, but this was the piece that made me feel like I was finally breaking though. Simply changing the plain strokes made by the Pencil Tool with the charcoal option from the Brush library and adding color gave Valentyne new life.

Alice-Dramatic Pause: This is the colored image trace based off of Alice #2 (see Wildcard Wednesday #15). I had some issues with the layers while painting Hatter (which is why the details in his ear are very faint), but otherwise it turned out fine. Again, giving my drawings color helped bring life into them that I couldn't see with just the plain Pencil lines.

Tools: Adobe Illustrator, physical drawings (for Alice-Dramatic Pause)