Type Rugs
As some of you may know, I purchased a Cintiq tablet a few weeks ago and have been having a blast with it. I’m not here to write a big consumer review, but I can say that it has changed my process quite a bit. I wasn’t a Wacom user prior to purchasing the Cintiq (all of my vector drawing was done with a mouse or the track pad on my laptop), and I did all of my sketches in pencil. I still love pencil sketching, but being able to draw within client-provided templates rather than using light tables and an ancient scanner is definitely awesome.
I was doodling on it one day and decided I wanted to make a rug out of one of my drawings and was super pumped with how it turned out. So pumped, in fact, that I want to make a whole mess of rugs! I’m still working out how to mass produce them, but as a treat, I thought I would do a screen cast of myself drawing a new rug design so you guys can see the whole process before I get out the utility knife. The first video is the sketch in Photoshop, and the second is me tracing it and perfecting it in Illustrator. Both videos are sped up so that you don’t get bored. Feel free to sound track it with your own music. I was listening to Yuck when drawing in Photoshop and The Cranberries when drawing in Illustrator if you want to feel like you were there with me. View the videos here and here. Enjoy!