Day 007 - Karate Mama

I'm packing up for EPICon 2009, which is in Las Vegas this week. Going to promote my writing. The convention has arranged for a book signing for all the erotica and erotic romance authors at the Erotica Heritage Museum, and you can be I'll be there to pimp my books. Meanwhile, today's drawing is a cartoon I did for Oh Get A Grip, a writers' group blog that I belong to. The post goes up on Friday, but you can enjoy the cartoon now.

This was done in Art Rage, using the pencil, marker, paint brush, roller brush and air brush tools. It's basically a cartoon of me and my husband and how our life works. Lettering was done in Adobe Photoshop. Someone clued me in on doing word balloons in Photoshop. The trick is to set a style for the layer with a stroke, black, about 2-3 pixels wide. I added a slight black glow to that to make it stand out more. Now I can just paint a white area with a paint brush and the line shows up automatically, or I can use masks and the fill tool and get the same result.

Day 006 - Triangle Dog

Maybe technically this should be day 007? I missed Saturday entirely, and I'm not going to do two cartoons today to make up for it, so I think I'll just go with Day 006. I'm more concerned with keeping an accurate account of the number of drawings I do instead of the number of days that go by.

I've been reading a book on cartoon character design, name escapes me at the moment, that talks about using shapes and repetition of shapes to create a character. So I drew the triangle dog. Done in Art Rage using the marker tool, the paint brush and the roller tool (sketched with the pencil tool, but I painted over that). I love Art Rage. It's a simple little program. When I do simple little things, I get good results. Now if only I could figure out how to do more complicated stuff with it!

Anyway, enjoy the dog. Arf!