Illustration Friday - Roots

This is kind of a strange picture for me. It's not a terribly original idea for the "roots" subject and that sort of bothers me. On the other hand, this is the first time I've experimented with a really rough line in Illustrator so it's "new and exciting!"

...Well, to me anyway.

Everything except the cactus was first drawn in marker and then scanned into Adobe Illustrator where I "inked" it with the bezier pen tool. The cactus was built entirely in Illustrator, including all 60 billion cactus needles, and what a pain in the ass that was. I think it looks pretty good though. My biggest worry is that the clean style of the cactus clashes with the roughness of the background. Then again, I tend to over think things. No, seriously. I do.

Be sure to visit Illustration Friday to see what everyone else out there came up with.