Art

Kazu Kibuishi, creator of WCCA’s “Outstanding Art” award winning Copper, has created a detailed tutorial of his process for creating the comic. Continue Reading →

I’m not sure I want to see an actual 3-d PvP logo everyday (looking at 3-d anything without 3-d glasses is annoying) but this 3-d rendering of today’s strip works pretty well if you have a pair of 3-d glasses laying around. Continue Reading →

Fabricari has a new gimmick. Steve Harrison has positioned a camera over his art table and records about an hour of comic making and speeds it up to fit into a three-minute QuickTime movie. Steve intends to create a new movie each week to drive folks over to read the comic. Continue Reading →

A new issue of The Webcomics Examiner is out. Continue Reading →

Phil points out a new peer-review project for webcomic creators called The Swift Savage Disassembly of your Self-Esteem or Savage Disassembly for short. Honest and reasoned peer review groups can be a very useful tool for developing artists and/or writers, particularly if the group includes a talented and insightful group of peers.

In the distant past of webcomics (the last century!) Maritza Campos shepherded a peer-review group called “Hot List” but I believe that unraveled more than a few years ago.

I think I forgot to mention earlier that Phil also wrote up the most recent Washington Webtoonists meetup where we were visited by Joey Manley. Continue Reading →

Anyone use Art Rage from Ambient Design? It’s a free program that is designed to provide a realistic and fun simulation of using paint on a canvas, along with pens, pencils, crayons, and other tools.

Also interesting is Art Pad from Art.com which lets you draw pictures in your browser. Unfortunately, Art.com claims that anything you make with their little toy is their property. Continue Reading →

Tom Hart’s comic-strip making class starts next week at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. The class is a heavy look at webcomics but focuses more on the nuts and bolts of drawing/writing/serializing, etc. More from Tom Hart after the break: Continue Reading →

Brad Guigar, creator of “Greystone Inn,” is proud to announce the launch of Everything Cartooning dot com.

The Web site is a companion site for Guigar’s book, “The Everything Cartooning Book,” published by Adams Media.

Cartoonists can submit work for critique, ask questions in the discussion forum, share helpful advice, find a collaborator, and discuss cartooning in general. There’s a classified ad area where freelancers can find clients, clients can find freelancers, and writers amd artists can find a collaborator. Continue Reading →

Who gets tattoos? Well, according to this website, awesome people! The creator of Daily Dinosaur Comics has put together a page with “the express purpose … to encourage more people to get crazy drawings burned into their skin.” If you have any pictures of webcomics tattoos, you might consider telling this guy about it.
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Leo Hartas’ new book, How to Draw and Sell Digital Cartoons, promises to show how to create professional quality digital cartoons. Topics covered include setting up a digital studio, advice on transforming good graphic ideas into finished work, training the imagination, striving for originality, developing the technique of self-criticism, planning and writing scripts, writing captions for single-frame cartoons, storyboarding, making preliminary sketches on the computer, and mastering line art, color, and 3D techniques. Finally, Hartas offers detailed advice on how to get one’s digital art seen by potential buyers, how to get it published, how to set fees, and the importance of time management and meeting deadlines. Continue Reading →