We all know Bill Watterson as the writer and artist of our beloved Calvin and Hobbesย comic strip. I remember watching the news at my grandparent’s house in 1995, when it was announced that Bill Watterson had drawn the last strip and wouldn’t be drawing Calvin and Hobbesย anymore. I remember rushing to my copies of Revenge…
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/22999575] Beautiful promo video for the Toronto Comics Arts Festival this Saturday.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWj5Q1oiM9Y] Peter Jackson is vlogging his progress on the making of The Hobbit. Apparently they’ve started production and left us with this 11 minute behind-the-scenes. Can you imagine all those cameras filming the other cameras filming the actors? Wild.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0FC9hmBm08] Anyone else get that feeling in your stomach when inking, or watching someone else ink? Like you’re at the top of a roller coaster that’s about to drop, or like the feeling you get the night before a new school year? I still feel this excitement whenever I’m drawing with a brush, or when…
Oh, gosh. Ivan Brunetti again. I love this guy and his book on cartooning. Ivan was interviewed on The Comics Journal about teaching cartooning and his involvement with comics and writing. He mentions how some beginners tend to get too wrapped up in “technical stuff right off the bat” (which is true in nearly all…
A few days ago I came across this fun look into Darrell’s process for making his web comic, Sticks and Bones. It’s always interesting to me to see how creators’ processes can be so similar sometimes, and so vastly different at others. This overview seems pretty standard, but it’s a good reminder of how important…
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/16362105] Vanessa Davis is one of the few working comics artists out there that works almost exclusively in watercolors. Her book, Make Me a Woman, is out now and it looks fantastic! While you wait for Make Me a Woman to ship, you might want to watch this 25 minute video of her painting.…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuXT6H7-480&feature=player_embedded] Word balloons, line variety, using layers, editing, adding panels, starting pages from scratch, duplicating images…it’s all here and Doug TenNapel shows you how in Manga Studio.
Okay, this list of ways to steal like an artist has gotten a TON of attention over the last few days, but it’s worth reposting. Austin Kleon sums up a lot of the “tips” and advice I heard in college about creativity, process, and getting things done. While I don’t agree with everything he says,…
I came across CTRL PAINT the other day, while poring over inking techniques and processes. CTRL PAINT is a website completely dedicated to helping you learn digital painting in Photoshop through a series of simple videos and tutorials. If you’ve ever wanted to start painting digitally, but have been intimidated by Photoshop, or if you…