I’ve always struggled with drawing caricatures, but after re-listening to a lot of the Ricky Gervais podcasts featuring Steve Merchant and the incredible Karl Pilkington, I decided to try drawing the round-headed monkey man.

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Corel Painter is my go-to program and has been for years now. Along with my trusted Wacom Cintiq 21UX, it’s wha I work with every day.

Above is a screen shot of their splash screen. There are illustrations that rotate through when people open the application and sometimes my own illustration “Gesundheit” pops up.

If I don’t feel great about my work somedays (which happens a lot it seems), it’s nice to see one of my illustrations like that inside my favorite piece of software.

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Here’s another illustration I finished yesterday… Corel Painter X with a Wacom Cintiq 21UX.

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Awhile ago, I did this pixel drawing of a penguin using the Pixen software. Here’s an painted version of the same sketch where I used Corel Painter, like I usually do.

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Messed around with some character sketches this morning in order to loosen up a bit. Extra credit question: Which one has constipation issues…?

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Sometime ago I downloaded a bundle of software from macheist.com, which included a neat little app called Snapz Pro X. With that I can video-capture my screen while I draw, so I decided to give that a go.

This is a little sketch that I penciled, lettered and inked digitally in Corel Painter X on my Wacom Cintiq 21UX. Very simple, but it shows the process.

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This is my work process, shown with a panel from the graphic novel I’m working on. It shows the sketch, the lettering and then how I start coloring by adding a gray tone over everything, before blocking in the colors and then, in the last two panels, I show how I add light and texture to finish it off.

It’s all done in Corel Painter using a Wacom Cintiq 21UX graphics tablet (as usual).

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A panel painted in Corel Painter X, using a Wacom Cintiq 21UX…

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Here’s another little update on my current project. Sketched, lettered and painted in Corel Painter X using a Wacom Cintiq UX21.

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Don’t ask… This is just a sketch, or rather, the beginning of a painting that I found sitting around in a distant folder on my computer. I did it to test out some brushes in Photoshop. I usually paint all my stuff in Corel Painter, but sometimes it’s nice to mix things up a bit using Photoshop. I found this brush that creates a neat effect of simulating canvas texture. Unfortunately, this was so long ago, I’m not even sure how to find back to that brush again… You can see some of the brush work in the close-up below.

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