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Classroom Antics Robot Mascot Character
This robot cartoon character mascot was created for children’s tech workshop Classroom Antics. The client was looking for a way to add some personality to their promotional materials and overall company branding. The robot was one of three concepts for … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoon Characters, Cartooning
Tagged cartoon character, cartoon character design, Cartooning, Illustration, mascot, process, robot, sketch
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Creative Sessions: Character Design Sketch Approaches
A quick heads up to let you guys know that the “Character Design Sketching Approaches” post I put together for the awesome new Creative Sessions blog by the Envato team is up for your viewing pleasure. The first Creative Session … Continue reading
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Tagged cartoon character, cartoon character design, Cartooning, Illustration, process, sketch, VectorTuts
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Sexy Bail Bondswoman
This sexy bail bondswoman cartoon character design was created for—you guessed it, a bail bondswoman. The client wanted a woman character design that was sexy, but not too sexy, and had to be professional-looking as well.
Posted in Cartoon Characters, Cartooning, Illustration
Tagged Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Art, cartoon, cartoon character, cartoon character design, Cartooning, cute, female, girl, Illustration, illustrator, process, sexy, sketch, technique, vector
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Setting Up Bleeds For Print Design In Creative Suite
Although technically these tips apply to any graphics software, this particular tutorial over at Spoon Graphics focuses on the exact steps to set up bleeds for print design in your document within Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop. The method to do so in … Continue reading
Posted in Productivity, Tips
Tagged Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Art, Creative Suite, CS3, illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, printing, process, Software, tip, Tutorials, walkthrough
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Cartoon Art & Halftones Tutorial: From Inkjet Printer to Photocopier
A cartoon illustration & design project for a friend’s party required the resulting art to be suitable for reproduction on a photocopy machine. After some trial, error, Google search, trial, error, Google search, trial, error I discovered the magic combo … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Productivity
Tagged Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Apple, Art, bitmap, cartoon, graphics, grayscale, halftone, Illustration, illustrator, inkjet, Mac, photocopy, Photoshop, print, printing, process, Resources, technique, tip, Tutorials, vector, walkthrough
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Digital Coloring Tutorials by MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond
If you aren’t familiar with cartoonist Tom Richmond, make yourself familiar. This guy’s work is absolutely amazing. Very much in the style of Mort Drucker from MAD Magazine — only taken to the extreme. Not only is his cartooning & … Continue reading
Posted in Productivity
Tagged Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Art, caricature, cartoon, Cartooning, cartoonist, color, graphics tablet, how-to, humorous, Illustration, illustrator, Photoshop, process, Productivity, Resources, technique, tip, Tutorials, vector, Wacom, walkthrough, web links
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Genopal Color Scheme Generator Software: Weird Name, Cool Tool
Genopal is a color scheme generator software application I just stumbled across, and it’s pretty interesting. Instead of the standard color wheels most color scheme generator/explorer software programs utilize, Genopal doesn’t give you the option of choosing a color model … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Productivity, Software, Tools
Tagged Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Apple, Art, bitmap, CMYK, color, color theory, cool, Cool Stuff, Creative Suite, creativity, design, free, graphic design, graphics, hex, hexidecimal, HSB, Illustration, illustrator, InDesign, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, Photoshop, process, Productivity, Resources, RGB, shareware, Software, tool, web, web design, web links, Windows, Windows XP
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Color Theory Resources
Primary, secondary, tertiary, complimentary, analagous, brightness, hue, value, saturation, tints, shades… do these words mean anything to you? They should. A post by cartoonist Matt Glover points out ColorFAQ – very basic web guide to color theory. It got me … Continue reading
Posted in Tools
Tagged Adobe, Art, CMYK, color, color theory, creativity, design, graphic design, graphics, Illustration, process, reference, Resources, RGB, Software, technique, tip, tool, web links
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Pencil Grades: An Overview
I touched on the awesomeness of using multiple pencil grades in a previous post on essential cartoonist tools before, but there’s a great overview specifically on pencil grades by cartoonist Matt Glover. There’s some decent additional pencil grade classification information … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, cartoon, Cartooning, creativity, drawing, Illustration, illustrator, pencil, process, Productivity, reference, Resources, sketch, tip, tool
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Ten Essential Low-Tech (and Cheap!) Tools for Cartoonists & Illustrators
Still using that pencil you found in the couch and an old dictionary as a drawing board? Don’t feel like the biggest computer wiz when it comes to graphics software? There are plenty of inexpensive tools out there that will … Continue reading
Posted in Productivity, Thoughts, Tools
Tagged Adobe, Adobe Photoshop, Apple, Art, artist, cartoon, Cartooning, drawing, Illustration, illustrator, Mac, Photoshop, process, Productivity, sketch, Software, technique, tip, tool, Wacom
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