This seems so easy and obvious to me, but that’s because I’ve been doing it for so long and had so much practice, which is the answer to most things that we find difficult. I often hear children asking how to do bubble writing, so this is a basic lesson. I’ll follow up with more ornate versions that build upon this lesson.
Fly Agaric Mushrooms – Fairy Tale Ingredients
On a walk in the Forest, this afternoon, I came across quite a little glade of Fly Agaric mushrooms. They never fail to excite me. It must be years of fairy story inculcation. They would always appear in the corner of Arthur Rackham illustrations, like warning signs.
Danger – Strange things may happen over the page!
They are, apparently, hallucinogenic and may well be the influence behind Santa’s costume. Either way, they give me great pleasure when I come across them. They seem too opulent for our climate, too exotic. Surely they should be found in steamy jungles on paradise islands?
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Illustrating in Flash
Flash was not intended to be an illustration program, but I love it, because it is better suited to traditional drawing than a more obvious vector program like illustrator. In this video I give a brief introduction to how Flash works for an illustrator by showing how the cover of Viking Vik can be broken up into tiny pieces.
