Category: Tools and Techniques
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High Moon
When I last wrote about Zuda Comics, DC Comics’ recent venture into webcomics, I pointed out two of the new webcomics that I thought were standouts, Bayou and High Moon. Both of them are now running as features, and are prominently promoted on the Zuda Comics home page. High Moon is a horror/western by writer…
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Blurb and Lulu
Suppose you’re meeting an art director and you want to leave behind printed samples of your work. You could print out some pages on your home printer and try to assemble them in an office store report cover, or you could go down to Kinkos and have them print and bind it in some kind…
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Andrew Loomis in Illustration Magazine
The new issue of Illustration magazine (#20) just came out, and the highlight is a beautiful and extensive (32 page) article on Andrew Loomis. Loomis was an influential editorial and advertising illustrator who is better known for his instructional books than his classic illustrations. Hopefully this article will go some way toward correcting this. Loomis’…
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Colors! and Inchworm: digital painting applications for Nintendo DS
Since I first was introduced to computer graphics back in 1994, I’ve wanted a digital sketchbook. My wife still kids me because that year, after I was introduced to digital art by working with Photoshop on a friend’s Mac, I took a Photoshop book to the beach with us and read it like a novel,…
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Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
It’s often mentioned that comics, or “graphic storytelling” is the only art form in which words and pictures are blended together in an integral way to tell a story. I also like to point out that comics is the only visual medium (compared, for example, to film or video) in which the reader/viewer can choose…
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Willy Pogany’s Art of Drawing
When I wrote my post about “Golden Age” illustrator Willy Pogany in June, I was disappointed that I couldn’t find much in the way of online examples form his terrific drawing instruction book, The Art of Drawing. Well Stephen Worth and the good folks at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, as part of their continuing campaign…