Little Dave is the first character I’m going to introduce in my children’s series.
Meet Little Dave!
My initial plan was to draw everything by hand, watercolor each illustration and then scan and color correct using adobe photoshop or illustrator. However, while I may be decent with a pencil my illustrations lack the consistency needed for franchise branding and recognize-ability (after all I went to school for Marketing not graphic design, illustration or animation). As a result I’m doing all the illustrations in illustrator and learning to apply watercolor techniques in illustrator.
Here are two tutorials I’ve found that look most promising. This one from designinstruct.com is highly comprehensive. Meanwhile if you’re already fairly certain of what your doing this free brush library from vectips.com is also useful.
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