Sketches and Knockouts

So, my copy of Sketchbook Pro arrived the other day. The UPS guy showed up right as I was walking in the door. Since I was feeling that Sketchbook and I were simpatico in that moment, I fired it up and let the hand fly. Out came this guy:





I'll call him Joe. Not sure what inspired him but I'll take it. I also had a project that required a complicated knockout of a photograph. Being that my meagre Photoshop mask building skills were simply not up to the task, I purchased the Corell Knockout plug-in for PS. It works pretty darn well. You still have to finess it quite a bit, but the fact that you have some tools to aid that process makes it that much easier. I found myself looking for crazy images to pull stuff out of and then recombine it in some silly way. Maybe I'll post some of that stuff. It seems like a waste of time, but it ended up being good practice.

Still not as good as Justin, however, who posted a great piece about leaves over at the Slug Blog