I started messing around in Microsoft Expression Design 2.
After dabbling around in it, I wanted to see if I could do some illustrating in it. I decided to work on a Mighty Mouse image. It is pretty simple and not the most complex subject for a digital illustration, but it is a good first experimental piece.
I will tackle some more complex subjects and designs in the near future, especially with a project I am currently working on for Microsoft.
The tools are fairly easy to get used to based on working in Adobe’s tools. Some of the effects and filters like Gaussian blur and glows behave a little unexpectedly, yet they offer most of the properties that other tools provide. I barely used any in this illustration, since I couldn’t obtain the effect I wanted. I ended up just using shapes, gradients with alphas on the stops and some layering.
