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DOWNLOAD: Action Pose Photo Reference Library

DOWNLOAD: Action Pose Photo Reference Library

Wednesday is here, which means 2 things. The first being ‘hump day’ where we begin to make our descent to the weekend, and secondly – it’s Download day at idrawdigital. This week, I’ve put together a pile of action poses that you can use to add to your current library, or use as a starting point to build your own. Click here to continue…

Posted by Drezz on April 7th, 2010 3 Comments

Tutorial Tuesday: Action Pose Character Sheet

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…

Posted by Drezz on April 6th, 2010 No Comments

Hello? Anyone Home…

I bet a number of you showed up Tuesday and wondered where the Tutorial Tuesday went – or what happened to the webcomics roundup for March. Maybe you were lookin for the downloads from last Wednesday and yesterday… Click here to continue…

Posted by Drezz on April 1st, 2010 No Comments

Drawing Digital Comics – Hand & Foot Tutorial

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…

Posted by Drezz on March 23rd, 2010 No Comments

Drawing Digital Comics – Facial Expressions Tutorial

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…

Posted by Drezz on March 23rd, 2010 No Comments

Drawing Digital Comics – Perspective Radial Download

Hi folks, here’s a handy little file you can use to assist you in keeping your perspective accurate. When you are drawing scenes that involve angles and vanishing points, this perspective radial file can be dropped into a separate layer in Photoshop, and used as a guide to draw your buildings, lines of sight and objects receding into space. Click here to continue…

Posted by Drezz on March 22nd, 2010 2 Comments

Character Spotlight – Deadpool

Hello again, folks! This month’s Character Spotlight on idrawdigital features everyone’s favorite Merc with a Mouth – Deadpool. This creation of Marvel’s tandem of artist Rob Liefeld and writer Fabian Nicieza started off as Click here to continue…

Posted by Drezz on March 11th, 2010 No Comments

Drawing Digital Comics – Lettering Downloads

Today’s download features some free comic book fonts you can use for lettering purposes. Be sure to try out a wide variety of the comic book fonts listed here (please, don’t use Comic Sans, for the love of humanity!) and see which one works the best with your particular style. Click here to continue…

Posted by Drezz on March 10th, 2010 No Comments

Drawing Digital Comics – Facial Features Tutorial

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…

Posted by Drezz on March 9th, 2010 No Comments

Artist Spotlight – Mike Mignola

This month’s Artist Spotlight focuses on Mike Mignola, an American comic book artist and writer known mainly for his creation – Hellboy. Mignola started as an illustrator for the Comics Reader, drawing spots and covers Click here to continue…

Posted by Drezz on March 4th, 2010 2 Comments