Problem Solving

After doing the outline for my character I had the problem of the top of his head. In the sketch that I created the squirrel had a furry head, and this would be extremely difficult to achieve by hand. This became a problem, but then I came up with a solution. I found a symbol for a strand of fur, so I dragged it from the symbol library on to the art board. I then switched over to my brushes library and dropped the strand in to create a brush. The idea was that I could apply the brush to some lines I draw with the pen tool with no fill to represent fur. I manually tested many different setting for a scatter bush to achieve an effect that I thought looked good.