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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
For those of you interested in the old school traditional printing techniques used for shading, idrawdigital has compiled a set of links containing a variety of screentones and halftones for your comics. 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…
