What brushes do you use to produce the line variations? Are they custom? Beautiful work.

it's always fun to see peoples workflow. love it! and your artwork is supernice, using your iconset.

#Awesomeness. This made my day. So fun to watch. I love your work.

I loved watching it, thanks for sharing.

Thanks for posting this process video David! It's always a pleasure to watch how a fellow illustrator works with the same tools. I definitely picked up on a few tips from watching!

This is neat ! Keep up the good work!

It was just really amazing!!!

beautiful :) what software is that?

Damn that's amazing to watch!
Thanks for sharing David — makes me want to take some sort of art/drawing class.

Excellent ! thanks for sharing the process , that's very useful to me :)

Sorry I spend all my time in photoshop.

I see that you draw a shape, then you use the "smooth lines" option in illustrator.....but then you smooth it again by painting the lines with some brush???

What exactly are you doing there?

Just love your work, really inspiring!
A question..
Do you use blendmodes for the highlights and shades or do you just work with colors?

Fantastic artwork! I love your style

Love your work. This video really inspires me to do more illustration.

Sweet, sweet illo, with some tasty shadows that do the biz

David, been very huge fan of your work for the past 8 or so years. You showing how you do your work (and replying to folks' questions) is one of the best things you could have ever done! Seriously, thanks!

soo good!

Love the see the amazing drawing process.

incredible!!!!

lol i commented on twitter! but i ask here. i already read the tablet use + round brush, also what's that adjustment tool you use to change paths. ?

I've been a fan of yours for years! And I finally get a chance to see your process! Amazing!

The shadows/highlights section is incredible. Absolutely astounding how you do it.

I would love to see a longer video where I could hear you talk about which tools you are using at what time.

I do mainly logo design, and shy away from using transparency. From watching, I asume you use that feature quite a lot.

I see you are using the brush-distort tools quite a lot to get the vectors into place. That's what I'd like to learn more about. You have so much more control over that than I've found. Teach me!!!! :)

I loved watching it, thanks for sharing

Love your style... keep it up...

good stuff. love the other drawings on your site

awesome! i love watching people draw

I like this

wow i love this !!

can I name you "prof" David? :)
Thank you very much for the video!

You're my hero! One of my favorite artists ever and that's including all the greats!

How many minutes/hours did this take?

more more more

You've open my mind to illustrator... I had my Intuous 3 laing on a box because I work on vector illustration but couln't stand flash for the tablet neither illustrator for the mouse (terrible beizer handlers)

Yet I have another question: What tool did you use to fill the shapes?

I tried to make my drawing a "Live Paint Group" but it mess my brush sensitive stroke widths... and in your video ( which BTW is awesome ) you somehow set the fill and stroke color at the same time when you start to color your drawing.

Thanks a lot for sharing this.. and hope you got the time to at least see this question X3

Great work!

fantastic to see how you work! I love your approach to vector.

Wonderful work! Thanks for sharing your techniques!
I would love to see more tuts, you are blowing up my mind!

"The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity". Douglas Horton said that.

"Wow!" I said that :)

I love your work!...
... You use Adobe Illustraitor CS5? just curiosity...
Sorry just another one... where did you set the preferences for the pressure of the tablet? are they on system preferences or it has to be on illustraitor it self?

Oh ohh another one... the shadows and highlights... how do you put them in overlay or multiply?? I've been searching for that option but i just cant find it... :S

... Again fantastic work! :D

awesome!
the shadows and highlights are what make the drawings, so gloriously shiny and soft at the same time =]
thanks for sharing the process, it's really helpful.

one question: what are your pencil settings? the paths seem to come out so well for you. is it just a LOT of practice or do you have a custom setting that you use all the time?

This is excellent! Thank you so much for taking the time to do this for all of us. Such an inspiration.

Thanks so much for sharing your workflow! Your art is a constant inspiration, and I've learned a ton about the warp tool from this video and other's comments. Your style, even in digital, retains it's emotive touch. Thanks again for your contribution to the world of art and illustration!

Hey David -- great video. I'd never thought to use any of the distortion tools as a regular part of my workflow, but I can see that they can be super useful.

It may be out of place to give you advice, given that you produce masterful work, but you could greatly simplify your coloring workflow using Illustrator CS5 (though I can see you like it old school). They FINALLY included draw inside and behind features, so you can shade within a specific color without a mess of layers (and you can also use live paint without it becoming a mess). You probably know this, but figured I'd mention it.

Thanks for giving us an insight into your process. Just one question, how do you do the shading with the pencil tool without going outside the shapes? Do you use "draw inside" in CS5?

what software do you use to save this video?

Amazing! do u have a tutorial on wich tools u use and how you paint?

Great video! I'm a vector illustrator who uses a Wacom as well. I hated the tablet at first but i took some advice that was passed onto me. Think of it and only use it as a mouse at first. Once you get comfortable with it and lose all urges to use a mouse again, then tackle Illustrator with it. You'll wonder how you've gone so long without it.

Wow, I've been in love with your work ever since I downloaded your Somatic icon pack. Are you thinking of making some more? I'd like to download them.

Thanks!

What do you do to control the width once you edit a path with the Brush tool? When drawing a path, the width is set depending on pressure, but once you edit it, it only stretches the stroke and doesn't redraw the width.

When drawing a closed shape ... how do you work around the "pinch" you get where the two ends meet? I've tried going back over the line segment with the brush tool, smoothing, warping etc. From the vid, it looks like you re-brush to move it to a less conspicuous place and in some cases add an additional stroke on top? Is there a way to "blend" those tapers? I use the new width tool for cleaner work, but I like the more traditional look of the brush tool.

thx

Oh nice what program is this??

Hi David,

I'm in such admiration of your work. Your vision of lighting and colors just STAND OUT! Yes, stand out with caps lock ON!

How did you develop your vision for lighting and colors? Is there a way to learn color combinations and stylized lighting like you?

Thanks so much for the videos. Hope to see more from you!!