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I use Photoshop for most of my graphics work. I've never been able to get the hang of Illustrator. Lately, I have been using Bryce to create some backgrounds.
I mentioned the water on White Walrus used KPT 6 Reaction Filter. The Firewolf background was Render>Clouds in beige & tan, then Black Box Alien Skin>Swirl filter, with a Distort>Wave filter for the edges.
The main Font on White Walrus is Bard, and on Firewolf, the Top font is Kustom Kar by Ray Larabie (who, incidentally, rocks), the ESB is in Berlinner, and the script is Chase Callas.
The technique is called "split profile". The idea is to draw a profile that, when doubled and mirrored, provides a good view from another angle too (front and/or top usually, but I also did a salmon that shows front and bottom). I used the pen tool and did both of these up entirely in bezier curves, drawing just the left side, then filling it, copying the layer, then flipping the new layer, repositioning, and mergeing it back in. The idea with the walrus was for the body to sweep up and around to both sides and join up again at the back flippers over the head, but that didn't work out the way I had planned. The front turned out well enough that I just kept it. The wolf turned out perfectly.
I've attached the only version of the salmon I have accessible from this computer.
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