Vector Illustration: Jungle Beauty

While experimenting with the combination: Adobe Illustrator CS4 and Cintiq 12wx I found a lot of new possibilities for my vector illustrations. One of the first results I got is this new vector “Jungle Beauty” with a sweet Indian Girl riding a cute decorated Elephant on a Jungle forest path.

Jungle Beauty

vector illustration on Istockphoto portfolio

I really loved the idea of challenging myself with intricate Jungle flora and the deep colors of the forest. To get the results I wanted I used Blob Brush which is new in Adobe Illustrator CS4. As I recently upgraded to CS4, I still needed to practice some new features a little bit. Now that I got hold of them, I’m loving them a lot… Especially the Blob Brush and Multiple Artboards :)

Blob Brush works perfectly with my new Wacom Cintiq 12WX 12-Inch Pen Display that I used for all the vegetation and parts of the characters in this illustration. Cintiq gives me also invaluable opportunity to make my sketches in Photoshop or directly in Illustrator without the need of  sketching them on paper and scanning or taking pictures and then editing in Photoshop. Such a time saver! Love it!

For “Jungle Beauty” I initially made a quick sketch in Photoshop using my Cintiq 12wx:

I will definitely continue experimenting with my Cintiq! It’s really lots of fun!