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Pencil Grades: An Overview

Published on August 20, 2007 in Illustration, cartooning and tools. 0 Comments Tags: art, cartoon, cartooning, creativity, drawing, Illustration, illustrator, pencil, process, productivity, reference, resources, sketch, tip, tool.

Bunch of pencils 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 over at Wikipedia as well.

Find out what those cryptic “2B”, “HB”, “6H” and the rest really mean. Knowing the difference, having a full set of pencils with all the grades in the range is a must. This is the way to lay down very thick, dark blacks in your drawings as well as fine, light grays. It’s all in the blackness and hardness my friends.

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Sexy Cartoon School Girl Pin-Up – now avaialble at MyPSPTubes.com

Published on April 27, 2007 in Illustration, art, cartooning and updates. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, art, cartoon, cartooning, cute, girl, graphics, Illustration, illustrator, pencil, pinup, sexy, vector.

Sexy schoolgirl pinup preview art A new sexy cartoon school girl pinup has recently been added to my slowly growing collection over at MyPSPTubes*. This one was fun to work on. I wanted to play on the classic fighter plane nose cone art where the girls were straddling a plane (or a bomb!). I thought the number two pencil was perfect. She was given glasses at one point for that sexy librarian look we all love, but it just didn’t work with the overall design. Continue reading 'Sexy Cartoon School Girl Pin-Up – now avaialble at MyPSPTubes.com'