How to Draw Digital Cartoons: a Step-by-step Guide

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.