I will be attending the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo this weekend. In fact, I’m in Calgary right now! I’m here with my day job at Amazing Stories comics, so if you’re attending the show come on down and say[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Time for another update to Adventures in Cartooning (Or Things I Wish I Knew Months Ago). This time I want to talk about facial expressions. I’ve been having a hard time getting my art to portray the right amount of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The wait is over! Welcome to another installment of Adventures in Cartooning (Or things I wish I knew months ago). This week I’m mentioning a great online resource: The Webcast Beacon Network! The Webcast Beacon Network features numerous podcasts about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here it is! Another installment of Adventures in Cartooning (Or things I wish I knew months ago). This week’s topic is fonts! When I started this strip I used Comic Sans as the font for all the dialogue. Why? Because[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This past weekend marked Saskatoon’s first comic convention, and by extension, my first convention! The one day event was put on by a local anime group and featured a decent amount of booths and events. I picked up some cool[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This time on Adventures in Cartooning, I want to talk about ‘going digital’. I recently picked up Manga Studio Debut after seeing some tutorials for it online. I fooled around with the program while drawing the strip traditionally before deciding[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Welcome to Adventures in Cartooning, where I take some snippet of advice I found and relay it on to others in an attempt to spare someone else of having to make the same mistakes I did. This past Thursday, I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week on Adventures in Cartooning… a retrospective. I thought I`d share a peek back at the history of The Superpower Union. It didn’t start out as a webcomic (more on that later) and it didn’t turn into a hand-drawn[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week on Adventures in Cartooning (Or Things I Wish I Knew Months Ago)… They say an artist is always their own worst critic. That’s probably very true. Very, very, very true. I wish my work was better no matter[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Welcome to more Adventures in Cartooning (or Things I Wish I Knew Months Ago)! Last week I talked about Google Sketchup, a free program for 3D modeling. I managed to whip up a 3D version of ‘Ye Olde Comix Shoppe’,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…