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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This is another sketch of the two characters from my new adventure comic strip…

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I’m working on a new adventure comic strip. These are early sketches of the two main characters.

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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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Let’s face it, most of us will never make it onto The Simpsons as a character on the actual show, so we might have to take matters into our own hands… I created a quick self portrait this morning of what I, myself, might look like as a Simpson character.

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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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Character sketch of some weirdo guy…

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A couple of creature sketches from todays sketching session in my recliner, in front of Top Gear on BBC America…

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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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