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I did the sketch by hand, then took a bad iphone photo of it and opened that in Photoshop. After that it was all digital! Sometimes I use a paintbrush and ink and I did a recent Macleans illo with a brush pen -- But they all look fairly similar. Still, it's good to know I can produce decent results with whatever the situation requires.

Bad iphone photo of the sketch:

-- Julia

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Latest for Macleans

This illustration ended being in the same issue of Macleans as the Tragically Hip spread, so it's a twofer!

I used a brush pen (Pentel Color Brush) to ink this one. Usually it's a Winsor & Newton Sceptre Gold II, 202 Size 1 brush with Speedball india ink. My friend Robin Nishio got me onto the brush pen and I gotta say it's kinda hard to put down. It keeps a super fine point and can go super thick. And great for sketching because it forces me not to overwork stuff!

Occasionally I'll do one of these 100% digitally but I do prefer finishing the illo by hand.

Sketch:

-- Julia

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