Ha, finally got some time to post here at last ;)  Work and commitments have been especially demanding of my time lately *shakes fist at manga club* but soon enough I will be enjoying the loveliness of summer vacation.

This is my wallpaper of the week but mainly an experiment in Adobe Illustrator’s mesh tool.  If you’ve never seen this tool at work, it can create some pretty incredible photorealistic effects - a lot like skinning in 3D but on a 2D plane.  I’ve mainly just been using Illustrator for lettering my comic, since in my opinion Photoshop’s vector tools are deliberately clunky precisely so that Illustrator will seem awesome in comparison but lately I’ve been trying teach myself all the lovely Illustrator fun that I never learned when I picked it up on the job.