Ramblings of a Failing Mind

After my post of the little illustrator monkey that I made, a friend of mine requested that I make a picture he could use as an avatar. We went over the details of what he would like to see so last night after raiding I wasn’t quite ready to go to bed yet and decided to pull up Illustrator and give it a go.

After a LOT of frustration @ midnight of trying to get a gradient to work exactly like I wanted over text, I finally decided to start fresh in a different program. Yes you guessed it… Photoshop. Very quickly I was able to churn out a “beta” of the picture and although I wasn’t as happy as I would like with it, he was. I made a point to revisit it in the morning when I woke up and start a new. I’m now retrying my work again in Illustrator and changing the look of the character a tad bit but here’s a copy of the one I made while blinking myself awake @ 1am.