Lang,
Most art supply stores carry them individually (that's where I picked up mine). I recommend the col-erase blue or red ...NOT the non-photo blue...because the non-photo blue feels really waxy on the paper and you can barely see it, whereas the normal col-erase blue is quite visible and looks like a normal pencil. Of course, with a scanner (and photoshop), you can make both invisible.
Hope this helps.
j
Lang,
Most art supply stores carry them individually (that's where I picked up mine). I recommend the col-erase blue or red ...NOT the non-photo blue...because the non-photo blue feels really waxy on the paper and you can barely see it, whereas the normal col-erase blue is quite visible and looks like a normal pencil. Of course, with a scanner (and photoshop), you can make both invisible.
Hope this helps.
j
Interesting. I use col-erase as well, but Blick, Michaels, and Aaron Bros. don't sell them individually here.
Agentcel, thanks for the sprite tutorial! If you find any others that you can recommend, please let me know...I'm curious about sprite comicking (although that's probably a big enough topic to warrant it's own thread).
Lang, I dunno. In the two places I've lived most recently (Atlanta and LA, both near college campuses), the local non-name-brand art supply stores sell them individually. If you PM me what you want, there's an art store down the street that I'm pretty sure sells 'em; I could mail you a few.
Here's a nifty site I found.
It's more for animation than comics, but it's still pretty useful. There's 34 pages of notes on pretty much everything you'll need to know to draw cartoon characters.
Carson van Osten's "The Comic Strip Artist's Kit," an awesome little 7-page pamphlet that pointed out classic pitfalls in perspective, character design, etc. to greenhorn Disney comics artists.
Interesting British videos on body language that make for good drawing reference: http://www.videojug.com/tag/judi-james
Most of the other videos on VideoJug are informative in a mockumentary-by-dry-humoured-Britons sort of way, but I'm inclined to believe that these videos on body language are more straightforward. (They jive, for the most part, with other books I've read--even if the "how to tell if someone's lying" details contradict themselves.)
Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics made a video detailing the writing process of a recent episode. Kinda neat seeing how the creative flow works in super fast-forward. Check it:
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This totally belongs in the thread because the tutorials and walkthroughs talked much about these pencils. And stuff.
Most art supply stores carry them individually (that's where I picked up mine). I recommend the col-erase blue or red ...NOT the non-photo blue...because the non-photo blue feels really waxy on the paper and you can barely see it, whereas the normal col-erase blue is quite visible and looks like a normal pencil. Of course, with a scanner (and photoshop), you can make both invisible.
Hope this helps.
j
Interesting. I use col-erase as well, but Blick, Michaels, and Aaron Bros. don't sell them individually here.
Lang, I dunno. In the two places I've lived most recently (Atlanta and LA, both near college campuses), the local non-name-brand art supply stores sell them individually. If you PM me what you want, there's an art store down the street that I'm pretty sure sells 'em; I could mail you a few.
For Better Or For Worse has a rather detailed behind-the-scenes on how Lynn Johnston and crew make the daily comic strip. (It's quite awesome.)
Pretty easy and quick, mostly common sense too.
It's more for animation than comics, but it's still pretty useful. There's 34 pages of notes on pretty much everything you'll need to know to draw cartoon characters.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=193091
http://sevencamels.blogspot.com/2006/09/comic-strip-artists-kit-redux.html
http://www.videojug.com/tag/judi-james
Most of the other videos on VideoJug are informative in a mockumentary-by-dry-humoured-Britons sort of way, but I'm inclined to believe that these videos on body language are more straightforward. (They jive, for the most part, with other books I've read--even if the "how to tell if someone's lying" details contradict themselves.)
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/lynnfo/levdemo/index.html
EDIT: Also...his quite lengthy guide to coloring comics on computer:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/lynnfo/educatio/colourin.html
EDIT^2: I haven't read any of these yet, but they looked nifty.
http://qwantz.livejournal.com/74368.html