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Thunder Punch Daily 69 – Crow Quill Tips

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It’s a pun, get it? Today I share some thoughts on using crow quills to ink, based on some good discussion going on in the forum. I talk a bit about my first experiences working with the crow quill while drawing the PPV mini-series, and offer a few tiny bits of advice based on my experiences.

You can also check out this video I put together showing my method of inking with the crow quill.  Big Art & Story Party Time episode 2 has even more thoughts on inking!

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Thunder Punch Daily 41 – 1,000 ft to Better Illustration

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Today I share some thoughts and experiences from my professional illustration career to dig at the notion of working in a “style”. Do we have our own styles? If so, are they what we do “wrong”, or are they what we fall back on?

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Thunder Punch Daily 36 – Style Evolution

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Today I respond to a post in the forum by Jon David Guerra, which was essentially a question about how concerned we cartoonists should be about our style changing over time in a comics project. If you use the word “evolving” instead of “changing”, how does that alter our perception of the question? I share a few thoughts with my own experiences on the subject.

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Thunder Punch Daily 35 – Freelance Imagination

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Today I share some thoughts about how we’re hired for our imaginations as much as our skills with the pen in contractual employment. Illustration skill is important, but you need a highly developed imagination in order to beat those nearly impossible jobs and scripts. As usual, I share a few anecdotes to demonstrate how I learned this and to back up my point.

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Thunder Punch Daily 34 – Copy & Paste

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Another one from the forum: Is copying and pasting artwork cheating? I share some of my thoughts on the subject, using my professional illustration work, the works of other comics creators, animation, and the Switch Runners project to back up my points.

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Thunder Punch Daily 12 – More Steps = Faster Work

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Chris Oatley recently shared a thought in his ArtCast about how you can speed up your illustrations by slowing down and taking more care with your structure. I agree, and today I share a few thoughts about how increasing the amount of passes in my daily sketches makes for faster drawing.

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Thunder Punch Daily 09 – Value Your Lines

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Today I talk about four realms of concern I think about when using line value in my illustrations:

  1. Light Source
  2. Contour
  3. Weight
  4. Depth

More lengthy discussions on line values can be found in these past episodes:

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