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 feeble attempt at pixel art. It’s a vampire sprite based on a previous drawing, done in Pixen.

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Here’s a new panel from the book I’m working on, featuring a green hippo…

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