Articles by by DaveTurton

I’ve been drawing on something or for someone for as long as I can remember. I spent most of my time in school drawing and fighting with teachers :) Most of teenage years were spent rendering photographic level pencil and ink illustrations.I grew up in California and eventually moved to Texas where I currently reside. I've been illustrating on a computer for about 15 years. I have a BFA and a partial MFA :) from SFASU in Nacogdoches, Texas. I illustrate and specialize in Character, Company and Sport Mascot development.My major influences growing up were Frazetta, Coop, Mad, Cracked and CARtoons magazines. There are plenty more influences but too many to list. I have a deep collection of Illustration and fine art reference books which has helped me grow into the illustrator I am today.
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Making transparent gradients in Illustrator have become much easier with the new Gradient Annotator, a new tool in Adobe’s Illustrator CS4. It is now possible to define the opacity if individual color stops in a …

















