Published on
September 5, 2007 in
Illustration, art, cartooning and thoughts.
Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Apple, art, business, cartoon, cartooning, drawing, graphic design, graphics, how-to, Illustration, Mac, money, opinions, Photoshop, protect, protection, rants, sketch, tip, vector, watermark.
It’s going to happen you you eventually — a client who doesn’t pay their bill. And unless the project was for a significant amount of money, the unfortunate truth is that many times it isn’t worth the cost of suing. The legal fees can very quickly outweigh the money you’ll get, and that’s the positive side!
Because of this, I make it a standard practice to ask for a 50% deposit for all work before starting a project. But this only covers you so far. I also do not transfer any high-resolution or vector art until the final balance is paid, but sometimes this doesn’t cover your butt — for example, the client may only want to use the art on their website, or may have no clue about proper printing resolutions and will go ahead an use the low-resolution JPEG preview images you’ve been sending them.
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by George Coghill
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Published on
September 4, 2007 in
Illustration, art, cartooning and productivity.
Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, art, artist, caricature, cartoon, cartooning, cartoonist, color, graphics tablet, how-to, humorous, Illustration, illustrator, Photoshop, process, productivity, resources, technique, tip, tutorials, vector, Wacom, walkthrough, web links.
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.
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by George Coghill
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Published on
September 2, 2007 in
art and cartooning.
Tags: art, caricature, cartoon, cartooning, cartoonist, cool stuff, free, Illustration, resources, technique, tip, web links.
I just discovered these free PDF downloads of Inkspot, the Australian Cartoonists’ Association’s official magazine. The current issue feature über-caricaturist Mort Drucker. The publication is about 24 pages and contain interviews and news. I haven’t delved into the complete issue just yet, but looks to be a great resource.
Lots of interviews with cartoonists and other informative cartooning and cartoon industry resources in each issue.
by George Coghill
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Published on
August 30, 2007 in
productivity, software and tools.
Tags: Adobe, Adobe Photoshop, free, freeware, illustrator, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, Photoshop, productivity, software, tip, tool.
Ever need to temporarily reference another document while working on something – this may be an image, or instructions, or a PDF file. Many times you want it floating right on top of your current document so you can refer to it while you are working, and not have to switch back and forth between applications.
I do this a lot when working in Illustrator, especially working from reference images, but also the occasional email message or PDF file sent by a client.
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by George Coghill
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Published on
August 23, 2007 in
Illustration, art, cartooning and tools.
Tags: Adobe, art, cartoon, cartooning, CMYK, color, color theory, creativity, design, graphic design, graphics, Illustration, process, reference, resources, RGB, software, technique, tip, tool, web links.
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 poking around on the internet for some other sites with some more depth on the subject. Sometimes I forget how much I use color theory every single day, it’s just something that sometimes goes on autopilot and is an easy topic to forget to recommend to others.
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by George Coghill
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