Archives: August 2007

Link Love

Linklove

Either I’ve been neglecting my RSS reader for too long, or some of my favorite bloggers have been particularly inspired over the past week. Whatever the case, I’ve recently noticed some great stuff coming from some of the websites that I read regularly. Check ‘em out!

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Some Trees and a Ninja Beaver

I sat down to do some “serious” gouache sketching last night.

BUT…

I was getting bored waiting for the paint to dry and I ended up painting this in the margin.

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The Complete Digital Comic, Part 3: Coloring in Photoshop

Coloring

This is part three in my series of tutorials about creating comic art on the computer. Check out Parts 1 & 2 here:

Part 1: Sketching and Pencilling in Photoshop

Part 2: Inking in Illustrator

This part will be about coloring your line drawing in Photoshop. Enjoy!

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Free Textures to Download

Textures

These are some textures I’ve made. They all come from photographs that I’ve taken in the woods, in my yard, and several other places around the world. Enjoy!

Set 1

Textures Set 1

Download: Texture Set 1 (Zip file, 16.2 MB)

Set 2

Textures Set 2

Download: Texture Set 2 (Zip file, 17.2 MB)

More about using textures in Photoshop…

http://danidraws.com/2006/12/05/texture-how-to-make-better-art-with-jelly-beans/

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The Complete Digital Comic, Part 2: Inking in Illustrator

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This is part two in my series of tutorials about how to make comic book art on the computer. If you have not read the first part, Sketching and Pencilling in Photoshop, you might want to give it a look. Go ahead, I’ll wait…

Ready? Okay, now that we have a nice and refined pencil sketch, it’s time to give it some ink.

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Moleskine Sketches

Here are a few pages from the small sketchbook that I keep in my purse.

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The Complete Digital Comic, Part 1: Sketching and Pencilling in Photoshop

Pencilling

I recently received a request to write a tutorial about creating comic book art on the computer. Although I don’t work as a comic artist, I’ve always been fascinated by the process. So, this will be part one in a series of tutorials that will outline how I would make a comic digitally.

This was a very fun experiment, and I hope all of you, even you non-comic artists, can learn something new by this series. And by all means, if there are any “real” comic artists out there with any input, please leave a comment on this post.

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