'Here's how wot I poot toogevver theeze pick-chers'
Once again, here are the different steps I take in putting these cartoons together: until fairly recently, everything was drawn to the same scale on the same sheet of paper: today, of course, there is far more flexibility for the cartoonist through computer adjustments...after the initial frustrations of the first few weeks of doing this digital tomfoolery when I started, it has proved to be well worthwhile.
Plate One: The Veronica cat-girl character without flame background: note rough pencil guidelines for the flame effects to be added later.
Plate Two: Veronica before scaling down the facial image: faces like this [attractive female] are amongst the trickiest of all cartoon subjects-----some very good artists are not that great at drawing nice faces, and in fact some cartoonists avoid them altogether if at all possible. I do remember struggling with this approach in my early 20s, and this subject took a long time to 'crack'. Attractive women are definitely amongst my fave-rave themes to draw----as you may well have noticed!
Plate Three: The original Veronica sketch: a good drawing, but those proportions need sorted out in the computer. The face was drawn larger than 'normal' in order to make a nice job of the facial features: shrunken down later the results are more apt.
Plate Four: If the above cartoon looks familiar, this is because one of my very first digital-coloring efforts was a very similarly-concieved image. This very early effort is far from perfect and I now freely admit I was struggling to learn the ropes at that point: everything was done on the same level, I had not \licked' the use of layers at that stage. Layers are the single biggest most useful tool of the digital arsenal in my view.
Plate One: The Veronica cat-girl character without flame background: note rough pencil guidelines for the flame effects to be added later.
Plate Two: Veronica before scaling down the facial image: faces like this [attractive female] are amongst the trickiest of all cartoon subjects-----some very good artists are not that great at drawing nice faces, and in fact some cartoonists avoid them altogether if at all possible. I do remember struggling with this approach in my early 20s, and this subject took a long time to 'crack'. Attractive women are definitely amongst my fave-rave themes to draw----as you may well have noticed!
Plate Three: The original Veronica sketch: a good drawing, but those proportions need sorted out in the computer. The face was drawn larger than 'normal' in order to make a nice job of the facial features: shrunken down later the results are more apt.
Plate Four: If the above cartoon looks familiar, this is because one of my very first digital-coloring efforts was a very similarly-concieved image. This very early effort is far from perfect and I now freely admit I was struggling to learn the ropes at that point: everything was done on the same level, I had not \licked' the use of layers at that stage. Layers are the single biggest most useful tool of the digital arsenal in my view.
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