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20 Comic & Cartooning Photoshop Tutorials

Published on October 7, 2008 in resources. 0 Comments Tags: art, cartoon, graphics, Illustration, illustrator, Photoshop, Tutorials.

A collection of links to twenty great comics and cartooning tutorials over at PSDtuts. Lots of tips for inking in both Photoshop and Illustrator, coloring, using Photoshop layers to your advantage, achieving halftone effects and other comic-book style looks to your art.

A great resource. You can never have too much information about how other artists use graphics software to create their work. I often take tips from multiple tutorials and create my own workflow from just a tip here and a technique there.

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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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Monk/Friar With Beer Keg – Cartoon Mascot Illustration

Published on July 24, 2008 in Illustration and cartooning. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, art, cartoon, cartoon character, cartoon character design, cartooning, drawing, freelance, how-to, humorous, Illustration, illustrator, mascot, Photoshop, Portfolio, sketch, Tutorials, vector, Wacom.

Cartoon monk mascot with beer (thumbnail) I recently finished up this ‘Theology On Tap’ cartoon character mascot/logo project for a youth ministries client.

The client is a youth ministries minister, and his new program is focused on bringing discussions of theological matters into more casual settings to try and reach additional young people.

The artwork is intended to be used on various advertising and promotional materials, as well as a t-shirt design.

I thought it odd at first, but I suppose there’s nothing really wrong about talking about religious matters in a bar, right? And I suppose a minister knows the deal. My only concern was to create a great illustration for him and his project.

Anyways, read on for an in-depth overview of the process to create this cartoon character mascot/logo from start to finish, including unused sketches created along the way.

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The Animator’s Survival Kit

Published on June 21, 2008 in cartooning. 0 Comments Tags: animation, art, cartoon, cartooning, drawing, DVD, resources, Tutorials, web links.

The Animators Survival Kit instructional DVD set This Animator’s Survival Kit DVD setÂ from Oscar-winning animator Richard Willams looks like a great resource for those animators out there. Personally, I do not have the patience for animation, but it’s fascinating to me.

This DVD set is a companion to Williams’ highly-rated Animator’s Survival Kit book. The site doesn’t seem to indicate if the book is included with the DVD set, but it seems not to be.

Richard Williams was awarded two Oscars for the animation on “Who Framed Roger Rabbit“. He directed and designed Roger Rabbit,Â Jessica Rabbit, Baby Herman and all the new characters for the Walt Disney/Steven Spielberg production.

The set isn’t cheap atÂ Â£634.04 (or about $1,252.42 for us U.S. folks as of the date of this post).

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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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