How to Draw Digital Cartoons: A Step

This inspiring book provides a detailed guide to drawing, colouring and manipulating your own digital cartoons. It is packed full with professional advice, fantastic examples and practical step-by-step techniques showing how to create amazing characters and worlds. The book begins by introducing the essential equipment and types of computer software needed. A useful guide to digital techniques follows, which explains how to colour a scanned image, how to combine different media, add speech bubbles and much more. The main section features a range of projects that offer the opportunity to practice the techniques, and produce a variety of cartoon styles, such as graphic novel, manga, and science fiction. There are over 200 amazing drawings and 70 step-by-step exercises which show the artist how to build and develop their skills and also to polish their existing abilitiesand gives hope to endless visual possibilities.