Working with Illustrator and a Wacom Tablet

When I first started out using computers and photoshop and Illustrator, I much preferred photoshop as it made more sense to me. I could manipulate photos with ease and really liked the organic way that it worked. I then started looking at ways to integrate scanned brush strokes and watercolors with photoshop to make artwork that looked less digital and more painterly. I still have a long way to go on that end, but finally I found myself in the world of Illustrator and have really learned how to use this program to great advantage when it comes to cartoons and images that need to convey a straight forward simple concept. I really admire the vector artists out there that spend so much time with the gradients and colors and have found that in the end now, more and more I'm valuing this very integral application as my core tool of choice. Things could change and probably will, but for now, I'm enjoying the ease and speed of working in Illustrator.

p.s. I'm a bit behind in the times, but you really need to check out The Wesley Willis Fiasco. It's as hilarious as it is sad.