A peek inside my studio

A peek into the studio of Rob Christianson, illustrator.

New Illustration: “Cold”

A walk thru of how I created my latest illustration in Photoshop.

My Kids…

Illustration of Rob’s children.

Dry Erase Markers in Illustrator

I just wanted to say thanks again to Grant Friedman for these awesome dry-erase brushes for Illustrator… take a look at how this is going to play out. We’ll be animating the handwriting this week sometime.

Coffee Tumbler Portfolio

1. Like a lot of people these days, I commute to work on a train.2. Lots of commuters bring coffee on the train.3. I work in Seattle.4. Seattle is a city with a great deal of creative people. (Not to mention, COFFEE!)5. And where there are creative people there are art directors! (In fact, I [...]

I AM A PUBLISHED ILLUSTRATOR!!!

Check it out! Hot off the press (I can still smell the ink!)

All in all, the book contains about 12 illustrations inside, and the front cover in color, of course. Now if ONLY I hadn’t kept forgetting to have the layout designer to put in an “illustrated by” credit in there! D’OH!!! Oh well, next [...]

Bitmap to Vector…

Im trying to find an easier way to do this. Here’s the original scanned drawing:

Here are my best stabs at making a selection, inverting, making a path, exporting the path to Illustrator, then smoothing it out in Illustrator. The problem is there are a LOT of points so it needs to be simplified somehow:

another [...]

Christmas Shipping

Wow, I can’t believe it’s time to start drawing Christmas again! Here’s an illo I just did for my wife’s new workplace. You may see this adorning a banner or two in town. It’s all Adobe Illustrator.