Originally Posted by tylergarrison
I just started doing this myself. Trying to do some retro styled 50s-ish illustrations so I scanned in some bits of newspaper ads/colors for my fills. Working with clipping masks and scanned swatches in illustrator is the new pink.
i've been using photoshop as i've successfully avoided learning illustrator for the past however many years. one of these days that's gonna bite me in the ass. here's the first attempt i made at this technique. it's a scene from lolita i did for an illustration class i was taking.
any tips you've picked up that you can share?