![]() On the left, Illustrator’s default Brushes panel. I wanted to use the custom Calligraphic brushes I created for this previous artwork. After I deleted the pasted objects, the new brushes remained in the file and the Brushes panel. Closing this file, I pasted the copied portion of the old image, which also pasted into the new file my custom brushes. To load those brushes, I opened one of my completed images (Place des Vosges with Noah) that contained those brushes, selected a bunch of objects in the image (to make sure that I’d grabbed objects made with any of the used brushes), and copied. I had previously created custom Calligraphic brushes that I liked. ![]() Double-clicking Layer 1 in the Layers panel, I renamed the layer “base” and clicked OK. The initial default setting for the template is viewed at 50% opacity, and I kept that as is. I opened Illustrator and chose File > Place, located the composited photo, enabled Template, and clicked OK. I also love the editability Illustrator offers in terms of quality of line, and the editability of individual strokes and lines separate from each other. I decided to create an ink and paint version of the corner in Illustrator, not Photoshop, because I wanted to draw with crisp, ink-brush like lines, and I wanted to be able to scale the image both small and large while maintaining the crisp resolution. I joined multiple photos in Photoshop to create an invented viewpoint that served as a reference image for my illustration. In a process I call “compositional brainstorming,” I combined multiple photos of the corner in Photoshop to construct an invented viewpoint I could use as a reference image. My first blog post focuses on one of the micro-hoods of San Francisco-actually, it’s just a corner-that might look devoid of anything delicious and yet contains great eateries. The food and culture blog has launched a San Francisco portal, and I’ve signed on to contribute an artist’s food perspective on the endless hidden wonders of eating in this city. ![]() This before-and-after shows the evolution of a photo into an ink and paint illustration of the “invisible” restaurants at the corner of San Francisco’s Mission and 18th streets. ![]()
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