
My final Mike Maihack tribute illustration. In color AND black and white!

One of my favorite things to do is to do illustrations using new techniques I’ve never done or even heard of before. No pressure, just have fun doing something new. I did this using more of Photoshop’s new bristle brushes, along with some different layering and painting techniques. Click on the pic for a zoomer.

Yep, this looks pretty different than my regular stuff huh? But it’s not that far off from my photography. Hmmm. Well, in order to learn the new bristle brushes in Photoshop CS5 I decided to just try painting over a photograph of my daughter. As I was painting and experimenting with the brushes I had...