Moving Forward- Re-Learning Old Stuff
I spent the weekend doing just about anything but drawing. I slept a lot, I watched cartoons, I raked the yard clean of leaves. I think last week was just too much- too busy at work, too emotionally draining- and I needed a vacation from thinking.
Now we’re on to a new week, and I’m feeling recharged and ready to start a Very Big Project at the beginning of November. And I drew a toucan.
I stumbled across a neat little trick in illustrator that I probably already knew, but forgot. I made these fern leaves and grouped them so that I could easily fill the tree with foliage. I had it all one color, and then accidentally selected an individual leaf within the group with the white arrow. So I shift-selected a few more and changed the tone of just those leaves. I think it worked pretty nicely to give the cloned fronds a little more variation.
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