I get asked this question quite a bit. There are a number of people who already know how to draw and don’t need basic pointers on how to physically draw a comic. They want to know how to get the ideas that are in their heads out there for all of the web to see. This week’s Tutorial Tuesday is going to focus on that. I’m going to show you the quickest way of getting your digital comics put together from planning and ideas right up to uploading to the Internet. I’ll use my own personal webcomic – El Cuervo - as the sample for this tutorial. Click here to continue…

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…

If you’ve wondered why I’ve taken a few days off here and there, I suppose it’s time to let the cat out of the bag. I have a webcomic project I’ve been working on entitled El Cuervo, and I’ve finally created the website and released the first 5-6 pages of the comic. It’s going to be an ongoing webcomic that updates twice a week – on Mondays and Wednesdays. So while you’re waiting for your updates on idrawdigital, you can check out El Cuervo on the off days. Click here to continue…

It’s time for another idrawdigital webcomic round-up for y’all, so saddle up and check out some more of the great comics available for free on the Internet. There’s some absolutely amazing work out there that will keep you entertained for weeks to come (at least until the next update) so rummage through the artist’s archives and enjoy the stories. Here’s a list of comics that you can fill your bookmarks folders with. Click here to continue…

When we last left off in the previous tutorial, we penciled and inked ourselves a pretty rad looking Spider-Man slinging his webs. This time around, I’m going to show you a few quick techniques to make a background and color your work. I have shown a few different ways to create backgrounds, and to flat and develop your colors. This time around, we’re going to use two different methods to do these things. Click here to continue…

Here we go! The third and final part of the action pose tutorial. In Part One we drew our characters and roughed in their forms. In Part Two, we drew in our rough pencils, drew in the details and inked our fighters. Now, we move on to background, color and text. Follow along closely, and you’ll be cranking out your own digital comics right away! Click here to continue…

The Grendel series is the creation of American author Matt Wagner, and has been in circulation in various forms for over 25 years. In today’s character spotlight, we’ll take a look at this intriguing villain and his/her immense underground popularity in the scene. Click here to continue…

Hi folks, here’s a simple tutorial for all of you. I’m going to show you how to create a few Photoshop master files for comic book pages, complete with guides and page info. Follow this easy step-by-step tutorial to set up your workspace for drawing digital comics.
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We’re back with another week of tutorials – this time around, we’re going to try another Marvel character. We’ve tackled Wolverine, and we’ve tried our hand at DC Comics’ Batman. This tutorial is going to show you how to draw a basic version of our favorite wall-crawler, Spiderman. Click here to continue…

Last week I gave you a series of webcomics to check out. This week I have something a bit different to put in front of your eyeballs. If you’re in the mood for some more reading material, check out these 10 artists and their blogs / portfolios. You may have heard of some of them, but they are not your average household names, that’s for sure. With sneak previews, upcoming projects, production images and inside looks at their processes, these blogs will definintely give you a different outlook on the lives of the everyday comic artists like you and me. Take my word for it – they’re great resource material. Click here to continue…