Hiyo! Today’s gathering of tutorials will focus on an important aspect that will make your comics more realistic – the proper use of light/shade and how to determine your light source. By having a fixed light source in your drawings, you can create some really dramatic and moody effects with your artwork. Check out some of the tutorials I’ve listed below by a number of artists to learn how these folks achieve their lighting/shading effects in their comics. Click here to continue…

Hi folks! Tutorial Tuesday is going to be a basic one – I’m a bit under the weather currently so this may not be the best post, but I want to give you something that I feel is important in the world of drawing – some pointers on foreshortening. Check this out. Click here to continue…

Tutorial Tuesday is here, and this week we’re going to tackle the Female Figure in comics. The basic tutorials and tips I’m going to discuss here applies to drawing females in your typical American mainstream action-hero style. You’ll notice that females vary greatly from genre to genre – you wouldn’t necessarily use some of the tips in this tutorial to draw females in manga, or if you were doing an Indie style comic Click here to continue…

A new week, a new tutorial! It’s Tutorial Tuesday again at idrawdigital. This week we’re going to create a demon portrait. Most demons are created in the likeness of the Christian interpretation of what Satan would look like – horns on the head, rugged skin, goat hooves for feet, jagged teeth and claws, etc. Click here to continue…

After a little bit of a layoff, idrawdigital returns with a Tutorial Tuesday post – this time we’re going to learn about developing a character sheet featuring a series of different action poses. By creating a character sheet, you can always refer to it while you’re drawing your digital comics to ensure that your character design is consistent from every angle. Click here to continue…

Welcome to the second half of Tutorial Tuesday! Drawing hands and feet has been the bane of a number of budding artists. Even some professionals skirt the issue of drawing these parts correctly by conveniently hiding them behind other characters or placed items such as rubble, machinery, etc. Click here to continue…

After a March Break week hiatus, I’m back and ready to roll out two (2) drawing tutorials for you! For our first session on Tutorial Tuesday, I’m going to show you some basic Facial Expressions you can apply to your characters in your digital comics. Here we go! Click here to continue…

It’s Tutorial Tuesday yet again, and this week we are going to look at facial features. This tutorial will focus on how to examine and draw parts such as the eyes, nose and mouth when you’re drawing characters for your digital comics. We will begin each facial feature by reviewing a real life photograph sample and the pieces involved in developing each part. Click here to continue…

It’s “Tutorial Tuesday” once again at idrawdigital. This week I’m going to show you how to prep and draw a simple base file in Photoshop to create your own character turnarounds. These sheets are absolutely vital in keeping your characters looking consistent from all angles. By having this handy reference, you’ll be able to compare it to your current drawing for any inaccuracies. Click here to continue…

In today’s update, we’re going to check out the calibration options for a basic WACOM tablet. By setting up your tablet according to your drawing preferences, you should be able to replicate or modify your existing method and make the transition from paper to digital much easier. Once you have your WACOM tablet set up just the way you like it, you’ll be drawing digital comics in no time! Click here to continue…