deke.com posts about creatures

Drawing a Bacterium with Gradient Mesh in Adobe Illustrator

Deke shines a microscope on how to draw a bacterium in Adobe Illustrator using Gradient Mesh.

Deke's Techniques 326: Masking a Caricature against a New Background

Deke shows you how to quickly mask a caricature (or anyone, really) against a new background in Photoshop