I read this tutorial on VECTORTUTS today about How to Create a Three Color Wolf Skull in Illustrator (the link to it is below). More and more I have been coming to the realization that some of the best artwork is not always out of thin air. So many people use reference points, pictures, models, etc to make their base like they want it. Then when you have the base drawings you can ad your own personal style to how the final product is presented. So many great grunge illustrations I have seen all started with a picture, that the artist then took to the next level and made it their own.

CHALLENGE: Take a picture of anything you see in the outside world; could be a tree, a person, or an animal, etc. Load that picture onto your computer and see what type of illustration you come up with after “tracing” the base.

Email me what you come up with I would love to see!

Oh by the way here is the link to that tutorial:

How to Create a Three Color Wolf Skull in Illustrator