Santa Claus and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Cartoon. “Cheers Old Friend!”
Here is another video of me drawing a quick sketch and coloring it in Autodesk SketchBook Pro software. I am using a Wacom Cintiq digital tablet screen on this one.
A wonderful tool which I can wholeheartedly recommend to any professional illustrator, graphic designer or cartoonist.
I made occasional cuts to stay within the 10 minute length limit imposed by YouTube so the drawing jumps along miraculously a few times, but I hope the steps I took are still clear.
As always I am posting the finished drawing below. I hope you enjoy the video.
Digital Cartoon drawing created in SketchBook Pro. Watch a video on YouTube of the actual drawing being created in realtime.
I like SketchBook Pro very much for the purpose of rough sketching, layouts, storyboarding and generally creating the inital basic artwork which I then later use to import into other programs such as Illustrator, Painter or Photoshop for further coloring or line-art inking.
Sometimes I lay down some color in the sketches/concepts/layouts directly in SketchBook. It has some very useful coloring tools such as the advertising markers and airbrush.
Digital Pencil Cartoon Sketch in Autodesk SketchBook Pro
In today’s episode it is only Ashley telling me what to draw as Joanna was out playing with her friends.
We are drawing two things – one a sunny side up egg with a top hat doing a little dance number, and secondly a fuzzy monkey riding a purple flying banana. There were some unexpected interruptions by two- and four-legged friends and neighbors and a parade of characters walked through my studio as we were trying to maintain our usual Fellini-esque production standards, therefore 30 seconds from the middle of the video have been left on the cutting room floor, to safeguard the esteemed viewers sanity.
Daddy Draws 3 - the final drawing of the egg and the monkey on the purple banana
How many of these are we going to do? When will the next one be?
This all depends on how long I can maintain a reasonable interest level both with you the esteemed reader and my daughters, the brains behind the operation.
Please enjoy the world premiere first ever installment of Daddy Draws!
Today’s Episode: “How to draw a hamster eating cereal in a floating chair on a pool”
The final drawing will always be posted in the blog below the video as well:
The final drawing which resulted from the Daddy Draws! video above.
This video features a few of my recent Corel Painter, Adobe Illustrator and Flash Animation projects and shows briefly how the files are constructed and how I work with the interactive screen of the Wacom 21 UX.
Here is a short YouTube video in which I very briefly show how I created the Irish Players for the new ‘Footballheroes See Red’ book using my drawing of Paul Mc Shane as an example.
I click through some of the layers and talk very briefly about some of the software used.
In the case of the Republic of Ireland team, I started with rough pencil sketches which I then scanned and imported into Adobe Illustrator CS3.
I created all my black line work in Illustrator using the pressure sensitivity from the Wacom tablet to give me the stroke widths and the right look and feel for my lines.
The Footballheroes books are printed in such high quality and on such top-notch paper that I wanted everything to look as sharp as possible.
Finally I imported the lines into Corel Painter IX.5 and colored the players using digital watercolor.
Final artwork was delivered as 300 ppi TIFF files.
The reason Paul Mc Shane is wearing a suit and a band-aid is because I wanted all of the team members to look like characters from a classic gangster movie. Why? I don’t know.
Back in 2003 / 2004 I made a series of comedy cartoon flash greeting cards for the website www.komedykards.com. They were commissioned, written and voiced by Hal Eisenberg. Hal Eisenberg is an award winning copywriter, voice over talent and producer. http://www.eisenbergagency.com
I did all the character design and animation and flash design work. They still look quite OK in my opinion, considering that I was working in Flash 4 or maybe 5 back then. Also I did all the drawing directly in Flash in those days, because importing was not very smooth from Macromedia FreeHand back then and it was nonexistent from Adobe Illustrator. (Not like today where you can import a layered Illustrator file directly into flash!)
Today I uploaded a bunch of them to YouTube.
The cartoon shorts feature Bill and Hillary Clinton, George Dubya, Jack Nicholson, Andy Rooney and Donald Trump, James Brown, Ross Perot and a mysterious Love Guru like Swami.
