Digital Illustration is a detail-oriented process requiring skill and patience. It is not a Photoshop filter or some kind of computer plug-in. Like any other artist a digital artist’s skill level, or lack there of, is on display along with his work. The techniques and tools used to create a digital illustration are similar to those used to make an illustration with pen and ink.

Traditional illustrators use an adjustable ruling pen, dipped in ink, to make hard lines of various widths. There is a virtual tool that serves this same function. The process of drawing on tracing paper, coated with rubber cement on its backside, and cutting a frisket, to mask-off areas of an illustration has been replaced with selection tools that serve that exact same purpose. A digital airbrush applies color and shading just like a traditional airbrush. All illustrators, digital or traditional, have to have a grasp of perspective, composition and shading.

Digital illustrations are more readily reproduced than traditional illustrations. Each image has the clarity and sharpness of an original and is printed with inks that are supposed to be archival for 100 years.

I’ve combined my years of experience, as a photographer and artist, to create these images for your viewing pleasure. Please do not reproduce them without permission.