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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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).
.stepPhoto { margin-right:10px; float:left; } .step { clear:left; padding-bottom:15px; } Want to make drawings like this? Following is a brief walkthrough from reference photo to a finished watercolor drawing. Uses Illustrator, Painter, and a little bit of Photoshop.
Here are some more tutorials that really helped me out. Thought I would share the links. Flatting by Mark Sweeny If you only read one flatting tutorial, make sure it’s this one. Temporarily Hosted Here The original link to this tut is broken, so I’m posting my version until it reappears. By downloading, you agree [...]
In the course of my search to find freelance coloring work, I ran across some sites that might be useful to others… Illustrator Tutorials by Brian Denham This guy does some really incredible work with Illustrator. And he’s sharing his techniques! http://www.illcraft.blogspot.com Gutter Zombie Forum Forums, Tutorials, and Sample Line Art for Colorists who Color. [...]
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.
