Thunder Punch Daily 109 – Tablet Drawlin’

Today I share some initial thoughts on drawing on the iPad, having sketched a bit on the device lately. I talk about my experience using Sketchbook Pro, the Pogo stylus, and the BoxWave stylus, and do my best to determine who would be best served by drawing on this device. Examples of my iPad sketches [...]

Video: Digital Cleanup and Basic Coloring Tutorial

In this video I walk through my process of digitally cleaning up my line art, preflatting my page using the Bpelt plugins, cleaning up the flats, and some basic coloring techniques. I’m using Adobe Photoshop CS4 on an Intel iMac. Follow Jerzy on Twitter! Discuss this in the Forum! Can’t see the video player? Log [...]

Art & Story – Your Comic From The Ground Up, Pt 7

[private]We’re back with another installment of the Your Comic From The Ground Up series, and this time it’s all about digitizing, toning, and coloring! As with previous episodes, we begin with a theoretical discussion on this stage of the process, followed by some practical strategies to make your comic a reality. Theory Considerations when choosing [...]

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Art & Story 118 – The Big iPad

[private]We jump off of the excitement over today’s news about the new Apple product to have a discussion about what this new device means for the independent creator/publisher, and what it could mean for publishing in general. For the sake of framing the discussion, we feel obliged to point out that we’re operating on the [...]

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Art & Story – Your Comic From The Ground Up, Pt 6

[private]We’re back with another installment of the Your Comic From The Ground Up series, and this time it’s all about the inks! As with previous episodes, we begin with a theoretical discussion on this stage of the process, followed by some practical strategies to make your comic a reality. Why use ink at all? Though inking [...]

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Art & Story – Your Comic From The Ground Up, Pt 5

[private]We’re back with another installment of the Your Comic From The Ground Up series, and this time it’s a full-on discussion on deciding what lettering tools to choose, followed by some talk about penciling. As with previous episodes, we begin with a theoretical discussion on this stage of the process, followed by some practical strategies [...]

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Art & Story – Your Comic From The Ground Up, Pt 3

[private]It’s time for part 3 of our series Your Comic From The Ground Up! This week we focus on finalizing our thumbnails, with a special emphasis on dialogue, acting moments, and moment choices. We’re not concerned with illustrative beauty yet–our main focus is on communicating your story visually. As with previous episodes, we begin with [...]

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Big Art & Story Party Time – Episode 2

[private]This is part two of a special podcast crossover event with the fellas of Big Illustration Party Time. In Episode One we explored some of the more theoretical aspects of inking–the roles of form and structure, draftsmanship, as well as the role of the line itself and how we use them to communicate what we [...]

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Art & Story Alive! Episode 37

[private]It’s an hour or so of discussion about improving one’s work, based on topics provided by Kaiki, Dungeon Warden, Frumph, and Scott Story. We try to wrap our brains around the idea of identifying one’s artistic progression, whether or not it’s better to update regularly or to focus on developing the art in your online [...]

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Art & Story Alive! Episode 17

[private]This week it’s a discussion about the tools we use to make comics and why we use them. We’re joined in the audio by Krishna of The Sequential Artists’ Pub and Uncubed and Tim Fischer of The Amateur Hour. We also talk for a little bit about our entry points into making comics. As usual, [...]

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