The Tutorials for Illustrator that UMass put up are great:

Tutorial 1 & 2

Here is one of my trademark birds… more to follow.

Every year there is a Arts & Crafts show sponsored by our local alternative paper, the Washington City Paper, which is called the Crafty Bastard. It is held down in Adams Morgan and in order to get there from the Metro, you have to walk right past our apartment. In order to capitalize on the fact that all of DC’s craft buying public would be walking by our apartment I came up with the grand idea of opening my own arts stand.

The city paper put up lots of signs advertising Crafty Bastard, so I took advantage of their advertising work and setup a little table in front of our condo called, Crappy Bastard. Pretty good play on words, huh?!

I made a bunch of little notecards, each hand drawn and watercolored. I got lots of people who loved the title, a few loved the notecards, and unfortunately, no one who bought anything. I was trying to sell four cards for $5. Next time I think I will just try to sell cards individually for $1.