Archive for the ‘Basics 101’ category

Coloring Lineart – Part 3, Cel Shading

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 at 12:55 pm by Jamie

Also known as anime or manga-style shading, cel shading is a lot of fun and quite straight forward once you get the hang of it..


Coloring Lineart – Part 2, Auto Flatting

Friday, January 22nd, 2010 at 9:28 am by Jamie

We return to flatting, but this time we’ll use a nifty plug-in workflow to speed up the process. For this tutorial, you’ll need to pick up the multifill and flatting plug-ins found at http://bpelt.com.


Coloring Lineart – Part 1, Hand Flatting

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 at 1:05 pm by Jamie

In this series, we’ll learn how to color black and white lineart. The first step is to flat your piece. Flatting separates the objects in your composition by color making it easier to select specific areas to color.


Sculpting With Monster Cutie

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 at 8:36 am by Jamie

This week we depart from traditional illustration to talk a little about customizing urban vinyl designer toys and making your own with some sculpting materials.


Back to the Drawing Board

Monday, June 1st, 2009 at 8:52 am by Jamie

Every once in a while, you may find yourself looking back at your body of work and thinking, “What the hell is all this garbage?” Well, I have personally come to such a time and it is why there haven’t been any updates for a while. After years of screwing around with the [...]


Draw for a Living Part 3 – Winning Web Portfolio

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 at 2:50 pm by Jamie

You are a brilliant illustrator. Your friends think so. Your professors think so. That cute boy who never had the courage to ask you out but managed to sign up for all the same classes you did in art college thinks so. So why are you not making obscene amounts of [...]


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