Chewing Pencils

So far in this tutorial I have shared a little about how I used Corel Painter IX.5 to ink over a pencil draft that I have scanned in. Then, using the digital watercolour brush, I began adding colour to the larger areas of the cartoon.
To add colour to the smaller parts, I basically followed the […]

When I first began to explore using Painter, developing my style to include watercolour, I realised quite quickly that I knew nothing about watercolour technique. A trip to the local art store quickly fixed that and I began to learn more about how watercolour worked. Although I was only using a digital version of the media, […]

Way back in this post, I outlined the process I use to draw, scan and colour a cartoon on the computer. Scanning is something I do very rarely as I usually draw directly onto the computer using a wacom tablet, however, when something is particularly detailed or difficult to draw, I’ll still get out a pencil […]

If you’ve just stumbled upon Chewing Pencils, this post forms the fourth and final installment of a tutorial on creating cartoons with both traditional media and your computer.
In part 1, I outlined the technique I used to draw my image, scan it in and clean it up ready for colouring.
In part 2, I treated the […]

Back in part 1 of this tutorial outlined the process I use to take a cartoon image from paper to digital form using my scanner. I also showed how to clean up the image, making the blacks as black as possible without loosing the whiteness of the whites - leaving the image ready for some […]

In part 1 of this tutorial, I outlined two approaches to producing a cartoon image using a mix of traditional media and a computer. I then went on to describe the tools and technique I used to produce, scan and clean up an image ready for some more heavy duty digital manipulation.
In this second installment, I will take the […]

Over the last ten years, my computer has become the chief tool I use for producing my cartoons and illustrations. My first few paying jobs were done before I owned a computer and were finished the ‘old fashioned’ way - by drawing a pencil draft on paper, inking with a marker pen or brush, colouring […]