Hey folks! I know it’s been awhile, but I’ve been working my tail off over at El Cuervo, maintaining updates there. idrawdigital will still have tutorials on creating comics and digital illustration, and posting links to webcomics and illustration ideas for your enjoyment. This week, I’ve compiled a series of links to some great WACOM tablet tutorials out there. Click on the images to access the links! Click here to continue…
When you’re starting out in webcomics, and you are not the greatest artist, the quickest way to learn is through practice and following lessons by other artists. This week’s tutorial roundup features a number of anatomy and figure drawing tutorials to help improve your drawing skills. Characters play a large part in webcomics, so you should have a firm grasp of the human figure and how to draw it in numerous poses and situations.
A number of guests have e-mailed me about posting tutorials on drawing vehicles. Since there are a million of them available on the Internet, I’ve gone and selected a choice few that illustrate the proper techniques needed to render your cars, trucks and specialty vehicles for use in your own comics. By following the steps within the tutorials, you’ll be adding some amazing looking vehicles alongside your characters. Click here to continue…
Hey yo! – it’s Tuesday (after the long weekend) and today’s tutorials are quick and dirty ways of drawing your own weapons for your comic book characters. Depending on the genre of your comic, weapons are a necessary evil. If you have a fantasy epic, a space story or a crime thriller, weapons generally play an integral role in the action in your comic. Here’s a few samples of tutorials that will help you draw various types of different weaponry. Click here to continue…
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…
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…
