What You Need for Streaming Art Sessions
By swikan on November 22nd, 2009Posted In: Art, Promotion, Technique
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I love to invite folks to WATCH ME DRAW! Even more, I like watching other folks draw. Have you thought of hosting a drawing session, but don’t know where to start? Well, you need a few things: a streaming video program, a host to stream the video to your friends and fans, and a microphone [...]
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Discussion of each step below:
Step 1: Create an Ellipse Beneath Your Text. The ellipse tool can be found in the Photoshop tool box (the little window where you select brush or eraser, etc.). If you’ve never used the ellipse tool, you will find it under the symbol that looks like a diagonal line (the “line [...]
Chris Browne of Hagar the Horrible has written an article on “How to be a Cartoonist” at The National Cartoonists Society website.
While the article is mostly about breaking into cartooning professionally, he does give a list of suggestions for moving forward with cartooning:
1) Work up your characters and concept. Let your work arise [...]
I inked the same sketch in both Photoshop and Manga Studio. (Manga Studio on top and Photoshop on the bottom.) I really like the inks in Manga Studio, but Photoshop does everything else better. However, Manga Studio’s built in page/panel creator, which stores everything as ’stories’ would be very useful for long form comics. (Maybe [...]
I think drawing exercises are a good thing. I’m so glad we started The Sketch-Out. I got to post the first exercise, which was to draw stick figures in motion and finish one of the stick figures into a finished work.
I did a blog post at The Sketch Out showing how I draw from a [...]
Was just watching a video stream of Scott Kurtz and he was coloring one of his strips. This is a tip which he got from one of the Penny Arcade guys (I think.. I don’t remember the name and I don’t read P.A.). Get one of the colors you are using and take it (its [...]
UPDATE! : The sketch group is ON! Meeting place is The Sketch-Out on Ning! Join and be ready to flex those artistic muscles until you feel the burn. First exercise will be posted on Friday 4/24 and every Friday after that. See you there!
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We had a great discussion during the last episode of [...]
Collection of videos on how to draw can be found HERE.
Was clicking around the twitterverse this AM (seeing who was following whom and their variouos websites) and came across @MichaelCho and his sketch blog, Michael Cho’s Sketchbook.
One of the articles he posted contained some notes about basic inking with a focus on “spotting blacks”.. what a find! Just some VERY BASIC info on some handouts [...]
In enjoyed this article from Temple of the Seven Golden Camels blog about motion lines… those little swishy lines that cartoonists/artists use to show motion. Those little lines drawn behind a car to indicate that it’s moving or the “swish” lines to show that something is turning.
The article points out that the old comic style [...]