The first thing in life is growing intimately with God through prayer. I am going to start gathering clues on what my regular theme ought to be from PRAYER.

Suddenly thought of a gold fish and thanks to N-Design’s tutorial, managed to do some cool waves.

But first a bible verse on being hooked on love; Song of Solomon 4:10
How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much more pleasing is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than any spice!

Designer’s Adobe Illustrator tool:

Lots of blend tool!

It just reminded me of a lady who had fuzzy hair.

When the Rebonding trend came, she went for it. Not bothering that her hair was too short nor that a face was just a little too round. Turned out a pure disaster which stayed on people’s mind for years.

You know, she could have looked so much better with this look but she didn’t listen to the right ”rebranding” stylists…

Here comes the first design:

inspired from Genesis 22:2
He said, “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.”

Artist’s (if I may call myself one on my own blog) note:

Abraham, who was a hundred years old when his only son was born (he wanted kids and wanted one for that long), had a son as promised by God but then after a few years God asked him to burn his son as an offering (in the end, God did not require him to).

I imagined that his heart must have sunk and felt unsettled. Small, holding onto the love of God and obedience, he must had felt the world taking his life away… hence, the design above.

Design’s tools:

Gradient, reflect, pathfinder, pen, chalk brush

Kind of fun, this is using the pencil tool which is a tool I normally don’t use as it’s difficult to control using a mouse (but now I’ve got a Wacom!). The smooth tool and erase tool are useful but first you have to select the drawing before they work.

The smooth tool is kind of amazing, the line can be jagged and you just have to move the smooth tool over it and it’s smooth! Much faster than altering anchor points one by one.

A great tool, though I’m still learning how to optimise the use of it as after using the pencil tool and draw using the Wacom, I still have to rework the anchor points. But well, it’s faster compared to drawing from scratch!

No new Adobe Illustrator tools used for this one but it is difficult to make the facial hair realistic. I have used the wrinkle tool for the moustache and beard and stylised brush for the eyebrows.

The hair took a long time, not perfect but tried my best using overlapping shapes (different parts of the hair) and gradient, lasso the points and eyedrop the neighboring color to make it look more natural.