How I create a catalog cover illustration

[Linhardt]

1 and 2 PS, 3 Painting.

[176champion]

Beautiful Al!!   Great work...photoshop is only as good as the person using it, i have tried my hand at photoshop and i get completely lost...again Great Work...

[Al Agnew]

Actually, the first one is a painting, the other two were done in Photoshop.  

[Seth]

That is simply amazing Al! Question.... are you using a touch screen and a pointer device when doing your drawings in Photoshop or just using a mouse?

[Pat Magee]

1 hour ago, Seth said:

That is simply amazing Al! Question.... are you using a touch screen and a pointer device when doing your drawings in Photoshop or just using a mouse?

I believe he said he used a stylus like device in the OP.

[Seth]

7 hours ago, Pat Magee said:

I believe he said he used a stylus like device in the OP.

That’s what I get for skipping the reading and focusing on those pretty drawings. 

[Al Agnew]

Yep, the Wacom Cintiq tablet I use is touch and pressure sensitive.  The stylus (they call it a pen) acts as a mouse, even has a clicker on it to do functions like right-clicking, and the tablet also reads the amount of pressure and even the tilt you are applying with it.  The tablet is my computer monitor on my desktop, functions just as a regular monitor with a regular mouse, but as an art tablet with the pen.  And I also have a smaller Cintiq that hooks up to my laptop.  So I can work as I'm sitting around in the living room in the evening, or take it with me when traveling.