"The Bad-Joke Guys"
A friend commissioned me to illustrate his idea of him and his two buddies, all in Christian ministry coming from different walks of life.I should have made this a vector illustration in Illustrator instead of a bitmap illustration in Photoshop with a Wacom. Fixing mistakes or making changes took forever. I used the Brush tool for most of the project. I used the default black foreground and white background; I drew with the black, then pressed x to 'erase' with white.
I used the Pen Tool to create the patches on the vest:
- In the Brush Tool options, I set the Brush Master Diameter to two points
- I used the Pen Tool to draw a path in the shape of the patch on the vest.
- I right-clicked over the path to bring up the Stroke Path option
- Clicking the Stroke Path option brings up the Stroke Path / Tool: option dropdown menu
- From the dropdown menu, I selected Brush, and a 2 point brush line stroked the path
I made the chains on the front of the vest in Illustrator with the Art Brush tool. I imported the chains into Photoshop as Smart Objects, so I could resize them without losing resolution. I made the background in Illustrator also.
My friend liked the finished product. He surprised his buddies with copies for each of them, and they liked it also.
My friend liked the finished product. He surprised his buddies with copies for each of them, and they liked it also.
