There are few skills an artist cannot exploit better using Photoshop. Illustration and a basic knowledge of Photoshop is akin to rediscovering pen and paper.
The use of this versital medium comes is handy when the need for speed is utmost. A typical real world application for illustration used in illustrating an advertisement takes twice as long to develop and send off if drawn in the real world. Reason for this vary but float mainly around the fact that once an illustration is finished it has to be photo corrected do print afterwards. A simple yet banal task.
Using photoshop as your illustration medium can save a hour of your time and effort just sending a proof to your client. That hour is normally not part of your billable costs and so you get stuck spending time on things that don’t particularly do any good for your business. So just a word to all those illustrators starting out there, it’s a mad jungle and work comes and goes just be sure you don’t work needlessly on one task. A task like preparing a proof should be left to a medium not the artist.
If photoshop isn’t your cup of tea than here is a short list of amazing digital illustration programs and apps.
Coreldraw
- Hands down the next best thing to photoshop. Even some of it’s brushes beat photoshop so it’s a great choice.)
Corelpainter
- CorelPainter like draw is an exceptional program but lacks some of photo correcting process required to send optimized files of the net. Still a solid pick to start illustration with.
Autodesk sketchbook pro (ipad app)
- This android and iPad application sets the standard for mobile digital illustration. With less features than a normal program this app can really only do one thing great and that is allow you to draw well, very well. A must for any mobile illustrator.
This is a question every business owner should be asking themselves. and is my website providing the desired result for my business? Hopefully the answer is yes, but most of the time it’s I don’t know. Which is more troubling.
