I started by tracing a tiger photo that I took at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. I outlined all the shapes in black with the first marker pen (shown on the left in the screen shot). After the outlines were drawn I filled the shapes with various colors. Color fills are much easier to do in Adobe Draw then they are in Adobe Illustrator.

Draw layers were used to create the background behind the Tiger, and add whiskers on top (not visible in this screen shot).

Adobe released the pattern feature for Capture while I was working on the Tiger illustration. I wanted to use this new tool in my illustration, but it needed to be vector not bitmap. I started by creating a star flower pattern with Capture, then I created a screen capture of the new pattern.

I love the patterns that I can create with Capture, but I don't like how mechanical they are. I opened the screen capture of the pattern in Adobe Fix, cropped the bar off the top and added some contrast. Then I used the Liquify tool to make the pattern more organic. When I was happy with the result I saved a new jpeg to my camera roll.

The new warped pattern was opened back in Capture's Shape tool which created a vector shape from the pattern.

I used the new pattern shape twice in the background at different scale factors. The background was created by starting with a green shape and adding the pattern shape in blue. Then I drew some orangic warm tinted transparent shapes on top of that. I finished the background off with another placement of the pattern, this time colored with transparent white.

 

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Adobe draw is a vector drawing program which means that the shapes are infinitely scalable. The iPad Pro with Apple Pencil allows me to draw at the finest level of detail. The detail in this eye isn't even reproducable in print unless printed at several feet large.