It’s Saturday once again, and I woke up early enough to get a little more drawing in. My next non-commercial piece is of this gorgeous toon icon, Jessica Rabbit. One of my early memories of wanting to draw has to do with this character, and that says something about why I’m still mostly drawing pretty [...]
Following up on my post from several months ago on Fun with a Pencil, I’d like to present the quintessential Andrew Loomis book, Figure Drawing for All It’s Worth. It’s hard to describe how good this book really is. I went to art school, and studied design drawing, fashion drawing, and fine art figure drawing, [...]
I first created these brushes around January 2008. I scoured the web looking for decent and simple photoshop brushes to create that natural media look that you can get so easily in Painter. The brushes that I found on other sites fell into two categories–rubber stamp brushes (ok for design, but not for painting), and [...]
Whether you’re drawing with a pencil or with vectors, some of the same ideas apply. In my vector drawings, I used to try to be very precise, drawing the finished lines and shapes exactly. Then, after I started learning to use brushes, I saw that I could make much more fluid and interesting shapes by [...]
I was looking through my drawing books earlier this week, and I came across a really old book that was handed down to me by a relative. I remember when I was in school I thought it was a great resource, so I started looking through it again. It’s called Figure Drawing for All It’s [...]
Just wanted to drop a quick note to announce that there?s a new and better Comic Artboard available. Professional artist Brian Denham (of Iron Man Hypervelocity), who runs a great blog full of tricks and tutorials for drawing comic lineart with Illustrator, has put together a new must-have resource. His board has sizing guides for [...]
This is the template I use when I’m starting a new drawing. It has the following features: Standard 10×16″ drawing space 1/2″ Gutter outside the drawing space, 1/2″ text-safe margin inside No unnecessary swatches, patterns, and symbols. Just Global Black, Global White, and a basic blue Preloaded with JW Inker Brushes Layer setup: One Guides [...]
The next release in the jwToon shader series is here! I’ve never seen any character take 2D shaders as well as MDP’s F202 Dollie. Hope you enjoy! Get the F202 Shader Pack here. Download the F202 Figure from MDP here. Read more about the jwToon shaders here. To use the eye reflections and makeup, you’ll [...]
One of the secrets to my recent images is that I’ve been using a set of Illustrator brushes that I created to make strokes that look a lot like real comic book inks. I’ve been refining them for a few months now, and I think they’re ready to share. These brushes are compatible with Illustrator [...]
I’m thinking about closing out my DA account, so I thought I’d put my Art Markers up here for download. Click here to download the Art Marker Photoshop presets. See below for usage (click the image for the big version).
Ankhammentu.com is the home of the somewhat-defunct web comic of the same name. More to the point these days, it's the art blog and resource site of crazy vector artist jwebster45206.
We believe our other contributing author is lost somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle, but he is much happier now.
