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Cap’n Clobber

Published on December 1, 2008 in cartooning. 2 Comments Tags: creature, drawing, monster, Monster Monday, Photoshop, sketch, tutorials, Wacom, walkthrough.

Cap’n Clobber is my robot gorilla pirate creation for this week’s Monster Monday illustration.

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Zen Of The Pen

Published on October 31, 2008 in productivity and resources. 2 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, art, Bezier, Creative Suite, free, graphic design, how-to, Illustration, illustrator, PDF, Photoshop, reference, software, technique, tips, tutorials, vector, walkthrough.

Sharon Steuer’s free ”Zen Of The Pen” PDF is an excellent introduction to the inner mysteries of the vector pen tool in Adobe Illustrator.

The pen tool is one of those obscure graphics programs tools that everyone tries once, and then gets so confused by that they never get any further with it. And understandably. It looks like a fountain pen, but it doesn’t act like one. Click and “draw”, you get weird “handles” sprouting out from a dot. Ignore that, and some annoying rubber band line gets stuck to your pen tip, all distorted out of — not even a straight line! Right there most Illustrator users think to themselves “this program sucks”.

But they couldn’t be further from the truth…

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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 Illustration, art, cartooning and productivity. 3 Comments 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.

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.