Digital Doodling

Trying out some digital doodles tonight with my Wacom! I was inspired by Emily McDowell (her site here) to try it out. She makes some pretty amazing prints with her Wacom and Adobe Photoshop. I preferred the Illustrator program, because I like how it smoothed the edges and handled the pressure of the pen.

However, I wasn't thrilled with how the color filled in when I brought the image back into Photoshop. I don't know if you can tell here, but there are some white corners in the leaves.

This is because I used the fill tool, and I even tried to adjust the tolerance of the tool to allow it to group more pixels, but no luck. I really had hoped to avoid drawing colored shapes behind the lined drawing to get a nice, clean color to the drawing. It's just time consuming.

In the second example, I made the lines look purposely a little more "grungy" so that the white looked normal. And, ugh... I'm just not sure how I feel about that, though I do like how "jungly" this image looks. Also, it gave the rose highlights which made it look slightly more realistic.

But, now it's getting late, so more practicing tomorrow night!