Today's rendering discussion was enjoyable as I tried to finish it in an hour and a half. I ended up putting in another another 20 min. later but I wanted to color what I had done and talk about opacity masks. Yesterday, after drawing the pepper 5 or so times in pencil, before the PS stage, I was more familiar with its shapes and had good idea of what the vector stage would do. There was a lot of visual editing from the pencil drawings I did in the beginning, to the PS stage, and finally the vector stage. It was a useful process for distilling information.Below is Paul Z's spleen....
