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Free ‘Flatting’ Photoshop Plugin For Comic Artists

Published on July 30, 2008 in productivity, resources and tools. 3 Comments Tags: Adobe Photoshop, art, artist, cartoon, cartooning, color, comic, CS3, free, Mac, Photoshop, plugin, vector.

Just stumbled across these handy – and free – Photoshop plugins which should be a huge time-saver for comic artists who ink & color their pages in Photoshop. A process also known as ‘flatting’.

These have to be a huge productivity booster to any artist working with coloring line art in Photoshop, not just comic book artists and the like.

I can already envision many applications for these in my workflow, even though I am primarily a vector artist.

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Fred Flintstone Odd Rods Illustration

Published on June 2, 2008 in inspiration. 0 Comments Tags: art, cartoon, comic, Fred Flintstone, Illustration, inspiration, Odd Rods.

Fred Flintstone Odd Rods illustration (via www.comicartfans.com)

Cleveland Clinic Medical Mart Star Wars Parody – Cleveland Free Times August 15, 2007 Issue

Published on August 15, 2007 in Illustration, art and cartooning. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Apple, art, caricature, cartoon, cartooning, comic, drawing, funny, humorous, Illustration, illustrator, Mac, parody, Photoshop, satire, sketch, Star Wars.

I (very) recently worked on a two-page spread illustration for the Cleveland Free Times issue that comes out this week (Wed. Aug. 15, 2007). The piece was a satire on the controversial Cleveland Clinic “Medical Mart” being proposed in Cleveland, Ohio.

Writer James Renner found my work via my website and wanted me to illustrate his Star Wars themed parody of the shenanigans. The piece was done in a cartoon style (obviously) reminiscent of MAD Magazine, as I was flexing some serious Mort Drucker, Sam Viviano & Jack Davis idolisation while creating the piece.

Staff writer Renner, along with Editor Frank Lewis were extremely pleased with the final piece, which was created on a super-tight deadline (even after being given a requested week’s bump by Art Director Ron Kretsch due to many existing and pressing projects on my end).

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