There’s always a hunormous line in front of Adam Hughes any time he sits in an artist ally with good reason. Known for his voluptuous women and stunning cover work, Adam Hughes is one of my absolute favorite comic illustrators. His convention sketches don’t come cheap and it can be difficult to get on his list, but as this five-part video series will demonstrate, they’re totally worth the wait.
Adam Hughes Sketches for a Fan
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Ask An Artist – Brush, Nib, or Pen
The Monster Cutie has questions and seeks out answers from some of the industry’s top known and unknown talent. So we’re starting a new series, Ask An Artist. I’m always curious to learn what tools artists use to ink. So I asked my friends on twitter, “Okay comicers, brush, ink nib, or micron?”
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How 9 Lessons From Rock Climbing Can Improve Your Illustration Work
As artists, it’s fairly easy to get into self deprecating funks. By nature, we’re dreamers. We have lofty ideas of what we want to do and where we want to be with are careers. But rarely do we have an actual game plan for getting there. That’s where rock climbing comes in.
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Cutie Flash – Design and Animate a Character in Adobe Flash
This week, we design and draw a cutie that’s ready to animate in Flash. We even sneak in a little animation at the end.
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Business Start Up – Part I, Checklist
One of the many side projects I’m involved with is Super Art Fight, a live art battle show. Thus far, we’ve been doing it as a hobby, performing to various conventions and venues, tweaking the format, building an audience. After a year of kicking around and just making it up as we go along, we’ve come to the point where it seems prudent to set up a formalized business structure. Guess who volunteered. I’ve never done this before so I thought I would blog about the experience so that others can learn from the many mistakes I expect I’ll make. Let’s get it on!
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20 Mighty Fine Illustration Tutorial Links
I’d like to start a kind of monthly feature where we link up some of the best illustration tutorials out there on the web and include some of our own cutie tuties from days past as this site grows. I hope you will find these as useful as I have.
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