I’m still messing around with cartoon drawings. Here’s the process I took for the “Fall Back-Spring Forward” doodle I did a few weeks ago:

1. Scan and Clean drawing (took care of this when I first uploaded the drawing.)
2. Trace each area of color with the pen tool. This left the whole thing looking very flat and clip arty, but it was a place to start.
3. Then I tried experimenting with Illustrators path thickness tool. It’s a lot of fun, but I find it as finicky as the pen tool itself. I do a lot of drafting, so I tried to let that guide my line thicknesses.
4. I finally decided It didn’t make sense to continue leaving this without a background, so I added that in. I was starting to mess around with gradients, but didn’t like where that was heading.

It’s quite an exhaustive workflow, and I don’t know whether practice will really make it less tedious. Also, there’s something bugging me about the style. The line weights definitely bring some interest, but the whole image still feels a little flat.

• 1scrubbed,
• cartoon,
• clock,
• drawing,
• sketch,
• time change