Illustrator vs. Photoshop

I noticed a really weird thing I do recently. If I'm in photoshop I tend to use gazillion layers with everything neat and labeled. But if I'm using illustrator, I use fewer layers, never label anything, and the space outside my art boards is always a mess. Maybe its because I've used Photoshop more, but I feel like I do it to offset that feeling that everything in illustrator is too precise and clean.

Here's the last four pages I've been working on for the La Jolla's Mermaid Book.

I could delete that stuff outside of my artboards... but I don't. And those layers could really be organized a lot better and labeled. Funny enough though, this file has not warned me for having to many paths, which I'm sort of use to seeing.

Here are some images from an album cover I've been working on. (A lot of glows and soft brushes)

And here's what the layer pallet looks like:

Look at all those labeled layers and folders. Super tidy and organized. My brushes are mostly labeled too. For the Ship Of Fools music video, I even made and properly labeled swatch sets, which I could have gone without. I just feel the need with Photoshop, and not with Illustrator.

In other news, I'm working on thumbnails and a mockup for the children's novel I'm working on. I've started page 26 of the Mermaid book. Sound work that was holding up the finishing of the first Fang and Talon episode has made notable progress so hopefully that train of work will start showing up soon. And I have a few potential jobs laying about for the near future. Huzzah!