Aug 06 2011
(Edit 8/8: There’s also a bit of discussion about this strip going on in my Google+ stream. If I have you in one of my circles, you can join in there.) I’m currently teaching an Introduction to Sequential Art class for The Savannah College of Art and Design and the primary text for the class …
Mar 23 2011
Earlier this week, Tom Hart did a great blog post over at the Sequential Artists Workshop site called “Oblique Strategies for Comics.” Tom’s got a great list there of unusual constraints (or parameters maybe?) that one can use to “kickstart” a comic. It’s posted without much further explanation, but the items on that list are …
Mar 10 2011
Lately I’ve been taking a break from my obsessive sketchbook hand-drawing and have instead been doing exercises to address another problem drawing area: folds and drapery. If you’re drawing people, you’re most likely drawing them clothed (well, at least some of the time!) and that means that you need to know how to draw folds …
Feb 22 2011
On the short list of most common problems with student comics artwork is “mitten hands.” You know what I’m talking about: a drawn hand that’s just a thumb hooked to an amorphous, fingerless blob. The close cousin of the mitten hand is the “hidey-hand” in which the character’s hands are always in his/her pockets, behind …
Feb 12 2011
I was talking recently on Twitter about how much I love the convenience of custom Photoshop actions for performing routine tasks and I had a request to do a quick blog post about how I use Photoshop actions to get my pages set up for coloring. In reading about how various cartoonists color their work, …
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