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Here we are with day 2! Having trouble making a cartoon character look young? Try shifting the facial features-- eyes, nose, everything-- a little lower on the head. (Thanks to everyone who retweeted yesterday-- much appreciated!!🙏😊)
Okay, here we go! This is the first of my 31 "tricks of the trade" I'll be sharing, one per day, every day this month. Today it's related to comics and speech bubbles. Tomorrow...
...well, you'll just have to wait and see! 😁
Artwork from MASTERING MANGA, from the section on poses. Which is your favorite of these three?
https://t.co/ZuC514fSD3
Here's the 6th of my online cartoons. I guess people were a little divided on this one, depending on the degree to which they have any "grammar pet peeves." I had fun playing around with the colors and the handwriting to pump up the contrast between the two panels.
#5 of my cartoons from last year. This was maybe the least successful of them, in so far as a lot of people seemed to identify more with the top panel than the bottom panel! In any case, I meant to poke fun more generally at how a song I dislike at first can grow on me.
It's here! @meiko's new EP of "chipmunk-style" versions of her Christmas songs, featuring cover art by yours truly. It was a blast working on this project, in which Meiko asked me to present her as one of the chipmunk characters. Look for it wherever music is sold and streamed!
Illustration from MANGA ART. I had fun trying to get all the details right, including the little shaker of S&B black pepper. Are you a ramen fan? :) 🍜
Here's the 4th of the online cartoons I created last year, in which I poked fun at my inability to post short comments. Sadly this remains true of me even now, as evidenced by the wordiness of this very tweet!
Illustration from MANGA ART. This began as a drawing for YouTube, in which I shared tips on drawing these two different hairstyles. Later I added the "Hokusai" wave pattern in the background, thinking it would provide an interesting echo of the waves in the hair.