Commissioned Cartoon Concept

    A friend hired me to illustrate this project for their customer who had an inside joke they wanted to be printed on t-shirts.
    I sketched the rats while sitting in a dentist's lobby waiting for a friend. I scanned the rats into Photoshop, opened the file in Illustrator, and did all the blacks as vector art. 😁

Kitty Cop

Pencil drawing scanned in from my sketchbook, Photoshop color.

Birthday Boy Anthropomorph

Adobe Illustrator CS 2

I don't know how much this actually looks like the boy I based the picture on, but for me, it captures some of his thoughtfulness and complexity.
Just a straightforward illustration. I created all the base shapes, then used the Offset Path command with negative numbers to make smaller inner shapes. The base shapes I gave darker colors, the inner shapes lighter colors, then blended.
I used the Free Transform tool to put the sidewalk and text into perspective. :)