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[Brian Yap, Creative Director, Boxing Clever] I would describe myself as an artist, but mostly as an illustrator with a heavy focus on design. Going into art school, the old pen and ink guys were some of my favorites, but growing up in a certain time, graffiti and punk posters were in the same mix of inspiration, and they kind of all blended together to create the way I work now. ♫ guitar music ♫ Recently I started using a tablet to do sketch work. For me, Adobe Ideas was a direct correlation, because immediately I saw that I could make my look with this app. ♫ guitar music ♫ I can send the file back to myself and open it up in Illustrator. Being able to email directly out of the app as a PDF was the first "wow" moment for me. At first I actually did not believe that it was a vector-based file, and when I actually went through that process I was just blown away. From there I was able to have it screen printed at a local shop, which sort of brought full circle the feeling of working on a digital piece but then actually printing it in this very traditional method. The parts of Adobe Ideas that feel so intuitive to me are the fact that it takes over several steps of the process I already use to create artwork. Generally I'm drawing, inking, scanning, and essentially now I just go straight from my basic idea into Adobe Ideas to create the vector artwork. Right now I'm working on an illustration--it's actually an old public domain image of a moth. For the first time, I've actually started playing with the opacity feature and creating sort of a stipple pattern that builds up and makes almost like a painterly quality. But when you zoom out, because you can work at such a small level, it has a very realistic look to it. Working with Adobe Ideas is just so intuitive. It's a very simple program, but I can push it very far. There's a lot of levels to it that let me build layers upon layers upon layers in artwork. Taking the tablet along with me and using Adobe Ideas allowed me to do a poster illustration on a flight from New York to St. Louis. It was a 4½-hour flight, and I was able to finish the whole illustration just sitting there in my airplane seat. It was quite a bumpy ride, too. Beyond the convenience of being able to take the tablet with me anywhere when I can't be in my studio at home, sometimes working mobilely and getting out into different environments for inspiration will take you out of a creative rut. You start to realize you'd rather work in other places than just sitting at your desk at home or in front of your computer. You can take this to a coffee shop or take it out to a park and work outside. I'm very excited about what Adobe Ideas does for me. As an artist it just allows me such a bigger spectrum of tools. It seems like we've sort of just scratched the surface of how this is going to change the way artists work. [Adobe]
