Frank's Sketchbook Entry of the Day

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Guiding Traffic? (color)   September 30, 2026 While the quick drawing with a pen was OK, I was wondering how long it would take me to clean it up. I haven't played with Illustrator in quite a while so it took me some time to remember how to get the brushes set so they are pressure-sensitive when used with my WACOM tablet. Once I got that set up, it was easy to "ink" the drawing with better lines. Then adjust them a bit, and make a copy of the layer and turn that into a Live Paint object, which then took like 5 minutes to paint it. It's still a simple, basic cartoon-y drawing with the head way out of proportion to the body, but I think the lines look cleaner and the colors enhance it, even if I didn't do anything with shading or other complex stuff. It's still just a quic, basic drawing, but still, it's a better version of it.

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I tend to doodle. Over the years, I've accumulated lots of random sketches of things, sometimes people, sometimes things, and sometimes just abstract lines. The basic idea on these pages is for me to slowly scan in highlights from my collection of random quick doodles. I also am providing a place where I can explain what it is or what motivated it or perhaps some reason why I'm not to blame. With the sketches of people, their name may be hand-written, or there might be a talk title provided, but I will tend to avoid providing full names. I don't mind if people know who they are, I just don't want them coming up on search engine hits, since that might be a bit rude.

Note that the images are PNGs with transparency. Mozilla and Firefox properly render them. Safari too, I think. Internet Exporer doesn't. I don't care.
If you want to see the image without the annoying blue-lined background image, just click on the image.

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