Tag Archive for 'process'

Creative Sessions: Character Design Sketch Approaches

Published on April 14, 2010 in news. 2 Comments Tags: cartoon character, cartoon character design, cartooning, Illustration, process, sketch, VectorTuts.

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 focuses on Character Design, and VectorTuts editor Sean Hodge approached me to author a post. Instead of a walkthrough, I thought it would be great to scratch one of my favorite itches: seeing other artist’s sketch process from rough to final.

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Sexy Bail Bondswoman

Published on August 12, 2009 in Illustration and cartooning. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, art, cartoon, cartoon character, cartoon character design, cartooning, cute, female, girl, Illustration, illustrator, process, sexy, sketch, technique, vector.

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.

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Setting Up Bleeds For Print Design In Creative Suite

Published on August 27, 2008 in productivity and tips. 1 Comment Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, art, Creative Suite, CS3, illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, printing, process, software, tip, Tutorials, walkthrough.

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 other graphics application might be slightly different, but these walkthroughs should give you enough info to apply it to non-Adobe software.

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Cartoon Art & Halftones Tutorial: From Inkjet Printer to Photocopier

Published on September 19, 2007 in art and productivity. 0 Comments Tags: 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.

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 that allows you to create a halftone in Photoshop for an image and print it out on your inkjet printer so the art will be perfect for photocopying.

This technique is perfect for flyers, newsletters or any other short-run printing needs you have where the cheapness of a photocopy is desired, but so are grayscale images.

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Digital Coloring Tutorials by MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond

Published on September 4, 2007 in productivity. 3 Comments Tags: 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.

MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond digital coloring tutorial screenshot 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 & caricature style excellent, but his color work is also phenomenal. Tom graciously has taken the time to outline exactly how he digitally colors his artwork in Photoshop in a juicily-detailed three-post tutorial/how-to series on his cartooning blog.