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Digital doodle

May 11th, 2010 by J. O'Brien

For the final project in one of my classes, I had my students make a digital doodle illustration where they created an image in Illustrator, Photoshop, or Painter without a plan, just started with a mark or shape and then worked from there, letting the initial mark and subsequent reactive marks build up to a final image. I do this in demos quite often, especially in Illustrator because I’m demonstrating specific tools. When I demonstrate in Photoshop or Painter, I usually start out with a reference sketch. Above is my digital doodle demo that began with a light blue circle.

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Tags: doodle, eye, flower, mandala, vector

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2 Responses to “Digital doodle”

  1. on 11 May 2010 at 8:11 pm1Krista Braam

    This is great, Jim! I want to work on this project!

  2. on 11 May 2010 at 8:32 pm2J. O'Brien

    thanks Krista, next time!

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