How to Draw and Paint All Hair - Clip Studio Paint Tutorial

Check out my Clip Studio Paint tutorial for how to draw hair. You will most likely learn things you never knew about hair.

Today you will learn to draw simple straight hair and complicated curly hair types using different drawing styles. Once you finish this tutorial, you will have the information and confidence to draw all hairstyles from reference and imagination.

How to draw Mouths, Lips, and Teeth - Clip Studio Paint Tutorials Ep. 01...

Today, we will learn how to draw Mouths, Lips, and Teeth and add variety to each of these features.

How to Use ArtRage Vitae PaintLink Collaboration - ArtRage Tutorials Ep....

Here's my ArtRage collaboration with Tiffany. 

Visit her channel to see the other side of this collaboration.

PaintLink allows two artists on two different computers to work on the same artwork.

Parts of the video have been sped up to save time.

How to Use the ArtRage Blending Tools - ArtRage Tutorials Ep. 37 on Abba...

Check out my latest tutorial for ArtRage 6

Top 10 Blender Interface Elements You Should Know

How to Set-up the Apple Pencil for Procreate on iPad

ArtRage Neko Cat Time Lapse - Episode 8 on Abba Studios

Neko Cat speed painting demo I did for Kumoricon, which is a convention in Portland, Oregon that celebrates anime and Japanese culture. Visit https://www.kumoricon.org/ for more information.

Created using ArtRage and the XP-Pen 16 tablet.

Blender 2.92 Grease Pencil New Features

A look at the new features in the 2D and 3D animation Blender 2.92 for the Grease Pencil. We have two new tools; Curve Editing Tool, Flat Caps and Trace Image Sequences. Along with the Improved Join Operator.

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Happy Valentines Day

Love

A commission I did for a wife to present to her husband. She wrote the story and I drew a comic strip about how they first met and fell in love. I gave her the digital art file. She had it printed and framed. As you can see, he was very happy. Love always wins. Happy Valentines Day! ❤️
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A Drawing a Day February 10

February 10 - M'Shulla

Mud brother to Killraven during the War of the Worlds.

A Marvel Comics character.

To celebrate Black History Month, I'm participating in #28black and drawing one black superhero or villain per day.

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The Man With No Name

A digital art piece I created using ArtRage software and Wacom hardware.

art copyright © 2017 H. Simpson

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Happy New Year 2017

May you have a very Happy and Creative 2017

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Read Warren Ellis and Jason Howard’s Trees #1 for FREE

Trees #1 by Warren Ellis and Jason Howard

Image Comics is offering the digital edition of the first issue for free through Tuesday.

Trees #1 is available for free through Tuesday on ImageComics.com and the Image Comics iOS app and on ComiXology‘s platforms.

They certainly don’t make it easy to find. On the Comixology site I had to type it in the search field.

You can read more about here.

Free Comic Book Day

A Busy Weekend

Visit your local comic book store.

On Friday May 3rd, I'll be doing a class on how to create a digital comic book  and graphic novel workflow in Santa Monica. See the schedule of classes.

Let's Create Together This Weekend

Join me this weekend March 16 and March 17, 2013

I'll be a presenter at an event in San Diego that is sponsored by Adobe  called the San Diego Create Now Camp. Here's a link for those interested in attending. I'll be doing session on creating a digital workflow for comic books, graphic novel, comic strips, web comic, ebooks creation.

 http://createnowsandiego.eventbrite.com/

More About Sound Effects for Comics and Graphic Novels

Old School vs New School

The state of comic book sound effects make me yawn. Nowadays they mostly look alike. Yes you can buy fonts created specifically to be sound effects. You've seen them over and over again. I would have thought digital fonts would have opened the door to more creativity. It hasn't.

First, let's look at some more old school lettering and then some creative lettering being done today.

Here's some more old school sound effects that are very individual and complement the art and contribute to the storytelling. Something that is sometimes lacking with computer fonts.

I firmly feel that artist should draw their own sound effects. Make them part of the design of the page and fit the sound. The sound effects can be hand drawn and then rendered digitally by the letterer if you don't want to do it yourself..

Here is a great current example from Cafe Suada by Jade Sarson. We should all aspire to this level of creativity.

to be continued…

read next - Sound Effects and Display Type Techniques for Comics and Graphic Novels
previous -  Sound Effects for Comics and Graphic Novels

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Copyright 2016 H. Simpson

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2012 Long Beach Comic & Horror Con

Talking with attendees after the panel

I had a great time giving my demo on HOW TO CREATE YOUR COMICS DIGITALLY. I really needed more time. I will ask to do this as a two hour workshop in the future.

I thank the attendees for their patience and attentiveness.

Now for those attendees you have to do two things to get the super secret link to the template I promised you. One is to make a comment below and I hope you remember the other.

The download link will only be good until Thursday.

Keep reading and  +1 me. Share with your friends. Please comment. Just create!

copyright 2012 H. Simpson.

Top 10 Amateur Lettering Mistakes

Top 10 Amateur Lettering Mistakes

Nate Piekos warns amateurs not to make these mistakes by helping them see what them look like.
Check out his web-site Blambot.

Number 5 should be "INconsistent"!

to be continued…

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previous - What Makes You Beautiful?

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What Makes You Beautiful Speech Balloons?

Word Balloons and Lettering for your Comic Book, Comic Strip and Graphic Novel

Comic Book Speech Balloons and Lettering

You are going to be in one of three situations concerning lettering:

1. You get a plot from a writer/co-writer. In which case, you won't know the exact dialogue ahead of time.

Typically when you do your art you should leave about a third of the panel space at top for word balloons. That doesn't mean you leave empty space, it means you compose your scene so no vital information gets covered.You want to make your lettered page beautiful.

Here's a couple of pages I did from a plot. You can see that I've mostly left space at the top of the panels.

Panel 3 is a little tight above her head.

Panel 2 is tight above their heads, however there is plenty of space on each side as an alternative.

2. You get a full script from a writer/co-writer. Now you do have the dialogue and captions. 

Now you can immediately consider the balloon placement when you do your thumbnails and layouts.

3. You are writing this yourself. Now you do know the dialogue and captions and most likely you keep changing it as you go along. Creative people… sheesh!

In any case you are still considering the whole page design with the balloons. There may not be a written script, as some artists start conceiving the story while they do their thumbnails. Which is what I do when I do the thumbnails.

I've included approximate balloon placements in my page design.

to be continued…

Comic Book Grammar & Tradition

BETTER LETTERER: Comic Lettering Tips

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previous - Introduction to Speech Balloons

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Introduction to Speech Balloons and Lettering for Comic Books

Word Balloons and Lettering for your Comic Book, Comic Strip and Graphic Novel

Okay, it looks like I can get back to a regular blogging schedule.

This is an introduction to word balloons and lettering.

I started learning lettering by hand when I began my career. I quickly decided I rather spend my time drawing. I didn't enjoy hand lettering. However, I did make sure I did the balloon placements whenever I could. Every artist should do this if you are not lettering your own work.

As an artist the word balloons should be considered a part of the page design and not an after thought.

If you are working with a writer from a plot, then you can't really incorporate the balloons into your layout. After the script is written make sure you do the balloon placements.

If you are the writer or get a full script from the writer, then you should make the balloon placement a consideration in your page design.

I do the lettering with the computer now, so I'll be discussing that. 

Here's how to hand letter comics.

http://www.blambot.com/handlettering.shtml

http://www.dharbin.com/blog/process-using-the-mighty-ames-lettering-guide/

http://www.artofthecomicbook.com/materials/lettering-amesguide.htm
http://kleinletters.com/HandBasics.html

Until tomorrow take a look at this fine example of hand lettering by Todd Klein.

He may still have some prints available. Check out his blog. Tell him I sent you.

OOHH my! I just found this minutes after I posted my blog, by Chris Oatley about balloon placement. Consider it a preview of what I'm going to cover.

BONUS LINK!

Comic Book Tropes

to be continued…

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previous -  Free Form Panel and Page Design

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