I haven’t done an "around the web" in a while, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t stuff happening on the internet. Anyway, I’ve been meaning to work on a faux watercolor style in Illustrator, and I finally got off my butt to do it recently. After searching the net, I found this tutorial. It had a good way to make a faux look, so go check it out!

Here is my first experiment. I used one of my doodle style illustrations and recolored it.

Well, the Wild West of the internet finally got to me. I decided to go through and watermark all my images. I was tired of people just taking my illustrations from this site and using them for their own purposes. Hopefully, this will help avoid any confusion about the copyright holder of these images (That’s me, by the way.). It’s strange because what if these weren’t my images, but a client’s or another artist’s image that I purchased as stock. Would people still use them without permission?

Now that I’ve gotten that off my chest, I am still in the business of selling illustrations, so feel free to inquire about any of the illustrations you see. I sell most of them as stock, so they are fairly inexpensive to purchase. I’m also available for custom freelance work. I’m just trying to make a decent living like everyone else. It takes me time to create these illustrations, so please respect my copyrights.

Here are a few links to my portfolio on some of the stock sites I am at if you are interested:

iStockphoto

Shutterstock

Dreamstime

Fotolia

These sites have a lot of the images you see here and much more. I appreciate your business and your interest in my work. Thank you.

This week’s Illustration Friday topic was slither. So of course, I drew a slug? I’m not sure if slugs slither. They probably inch more like a caterpillar, but I figured everyone would draw snakes. So, I went with the slug.