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Watercolor secrets from Richard Thompson
There are a few cartoonists who are real masters of the watercolor medium – Richard Thompson, creator of Cul de Sac and Richard’s Poor Almanac is one of them. He recently posted a piece on his blog detailing his watercoloring process.
The only thing better would be for him to get a webcam and do a [...]
Posted on: Jan 19, 2010, Section: Art Supplies, Comic strips, How-to, Comments: 4 Comments
Discussion: What unique drawing tools do you use?
I admit, I never tire of talking tools. Not the stuff found at the Home Depot, but the local art supply store. I don’t believe that any particular pen, paper or pencil will make any cartoonist funnier or produce more clever cartoons, but I’m fascinated by the tools cartoonists keep in their quiver. Last year, [...]
Posted on: Jan 13, 2010, Section: Art Supplies, Cartoons, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 64 Comments
Graphix discontinues Duoshade, Unishade
Graphix is discontinuing it’s Duoshade and Unishade products. The specialty paper allows a developer solution to be brushed over an inked drawing creating horizontal lines for shading. You can see the product effectively in Investor’s Business Daily editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez’s work (see example). According to Hayley Prendergast, President of Grafix, Consumer Products, the production [...]
Posted on: Sep 22, 2009, Section: Art Supplies, Comments: 29 Comments
Tool talk: Passion of the nibs
I got a kick out of Richard Thompson’s latest blog post about his favorite nib, including its history.
In n earlier post, I’d driveled on at length about my favorite pen nib, the Hunt ##101 Imperial, shown above. I use a dip pen nib every day of my life and am therefor a leetle obsessive about [...]
Posted on: Jan 27, 2009, Section: Art Supplies, Cartoons, Comments: 58 Comments
New comic tools blog
Proving that the blogosphere is big enough to have a blog on just about any topic no matter who insignificant – comes this post that I saw on Drawn! regarding Comic Tools – a blog about what tools comic artists use.
Comic Tools is a new blog from MK Reed in which comic artists share with [...]
Posted on: Nov 6, 2006, Section: Art Supplies, Cartoons, Comments: 5 Comments
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