here is a little gem. Kind of the proverbial Lemonade from lemons. There is this strange thing my Mouse and Stylus do when they both want to be in charge. My computer starts bouncing between the position of the mouse and the stylus.
So as I draw in the PENCIL tool the lines are “echoed” and the computer draws the lines in the exact spot 3 times.
It creates these really weird effects as all the lines are still connected from one block of lines to the next.
The lines in BLUE in the picture show the effect in real time. I took a snapshot of the Screen so you could check it out.
The black lines in the background are the previous batch I made. This usually last for about 5 minutes so I make as many different lines and shapes as I can in the meantime. I used some of these debris patterns in Elsinore in some backgrounds. 
What a great day. I went out and got the upgrade to illustrator CS2!
I love this program so much. I talked to Todd Macadangdang from Illustrator last year at Comic-Con and told him some of the features I didn’t like in Illustrator Creative Suite and how I wouldn’t upgrade until some of the functions of some of my favorite tools were fixed. Something they did in CS really bugged me and it made it very difficult to do what I was doing in Illustrator 10.
Man! Adobe really change Illustrator for the better with Creative Suite 2.
Some of my favorite features so far are the ability to save Templates easily, the ability to arrange and save the toolbars to your prefereance, the ability to save brushes quickly and effortlessly. I still have no clue how to do it in Illustrator 10. Now it’s a simple button.
I really, really love the Live Paint Bucket tool. If you like coloring anime style you have got to get this program. You can color anime style with a few clicks.
Some features really speed up my drawing time as well. The LIVE PAINT BUCKET feature can fill in ink lines for me very quickly. Some things that would have taken an extra 10 minutes of redrawing can be done now in less than a second.
Don’t despair if you don’t have CS2 yet. Many of the things I will be talking about can still be done in Illustrator 10. I’ll still be thinking with an ILLustrator 10 mind for a while until I learn all the new features.
However some of the new features are easy to learn and very intuitive.
Let me know if you have CS2 yet!
here is a little gem. Kind of the proverbial Lemonade from lemons. There is this strange thing my Mouse and Stylus do when they both want to be in charge. My computer starts bouncing between the position of the mouse and the stylus.