I stumbled across one of microugly's previous posts mentioning illustrator world, and decided to take a look over there. I found a really nice drawing:

http://www.illustratorworld.com/users/s/sr/srnoble/a5623.jpg

How would some of the pros here go about making a drawing in that style? I can see the most simplistic way of doing it would be to draw all those dark shading lines areas as pen-tool shapes, but is there a smarter way? The other thing is the repeating plant shapes. Is there a smart way to do this too?

I'd really like to be able to make my own drawings in this style.

Thanks,
Craig

Try this: http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery ... aving1.png

Inkscaper_ wrote:Try this: http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery ... aving1.png

This is great - thanks very much for pointing out this tutorial. I might have a go at recreating that drawing, as practise.

Thanks again,
Craig

As for the leaves, I suspect that artist has manually drawn each one. I don't see any pattern. It's possible they drew the whole drawing on paper first, scanned it and did an autotrace.

Well I've had a very quick go at trying to recreate the effect and I can get the shading to look okay, but it takes a while. I think I'll leave out trying to recreate that drawing. Going by how long it takes me to shade a simple shape, it'll take me about a month to do a very bad copy of that pic

Thanks for the pointers - I've learned something new about the calligraphy tool.

Cheers,
Craig