Since 2013 when I began illustrating commercially, my process has begun on paper and ended digitally. That changed this year when, after much deliberation, I finally decided to buy a tablet and begin working digitally from start to finish.

My biggest concern in making the jump to working purely digital was that my hand drawn aesthetic might suffer. Nothing bugs me more than a digital illustration that is half heartedly pretending to look as though it were drawn on paper. So I did a bit of an exercise to try and digitally mimic, as closely as possible, each of the six illustration styles I enjoy working with on paper. This project is the result of that exercise. From sketch to completion, each of these illustrations were created digitally using brushes in Photoshop.

Nothing beats working on paper but when working with clients, this really speeds things up.