This weekend, I finished the final illustration for the next Strategic Coach book.
I’m learning more techniques and principles with each of these projects, but there’s a point with each of these panels where I’m just applying effects and shapes and layers by guess and by gosh until it feels right.
I wonder if other artist/designers do this, too, or if they actually have a plan.
I’m extremely grateful for the people who developed the program I use to do my work, Clip Studio Paint. The more I use it, the more I discover — and I feel like I’ll never run out of new things to learn.
I usually learn software by just flailing around in it, trying to reach an outcome, but CSP is so involved and there’s such a steep learning curve to it that I watched a whole series of tutorials to get started — a brilliant series by Doug Hills — and I’m really glad I did. I would never have understood or found these great features on my own.