How to Get Your Cintiq Tablet To Recognize Your Stylus Pen

Cintiq users: Have you ever fired up your Wacom tablet and find that you can't draw anything because your pen doesn't show up on the...

Posing - Storyboard Video Wrap-up

This is the third of three videos in this series that answer the question, "How many poses do I need draw?" C lick on the full...

Storyboarding - Escalation and Contrast in Posing and Acting

In the previous video, I was talking about posing out a character's actions, and building up the posing to escalate the comedy. During t...

Storyboard Video: How Many Poses?

One of the most commonly asked questions about storyboarding is " How many poses do I need to draw ?" The answer usually depends o...

New Storyboarding Video -- Staging for Movement/More on Backgrounds

After taking a little break to cleanse the palate, we're back with another storyboarding commentary video (Links to the all the videos ...

Storyboarding: the Three-Shot

Today the topic is the three shot -- a composition that not only includes three people, but deals with the relationships between them   C...

Storyboard: The Close-Up

The storyboard artist is really a director at this point in the production process. It's up to the storyboard artist to direct the eye o...

Staging and Design – Storyboard Commentary Video

Today's storyboarding commentary video talks about staging and composition ; planning out your drawings to leave room for characters an...

When to CUT? Storyboard Commentary Video

Today's storyboarding commentary video talks about one of the most common questions about storyboarding: when to cut . As you'll be...

Storyboard Commentary: Drawing Pans (Panorama Shots)

In today's storyboard commentary, the topic is Pans. " Pan " is short for " Panorama Shot ," a camera move in which...

Storyboard Week - Day 2 - Establishing Shot

Storyboard week continues with the start of a panel-by-panel, page-by-page look at the choices and thought process behind the drawing of th...

Adobe Illustrator Cartoon Inking Tutorials - Now in ONE Convenient Playlist!

The Adobe Illustrator Cartoon Inking tutorials I created a few months ago have been a big hit on YouTube...thanks to everybody that left co...

Sketches from Danger Planet!

Have you seen the Danger Planet pilot yet? Somebody managed to leak the Cartoon Network pilot out of development limbo and onto YouTube: ...

New Harvey Kurtzman Book – a Video Preview …and some Pot-Shot Pete Comic Book Scans

Some of Harvey Kurtzman 's greatest comic book work were his Pot-Shot Pete stories, which he created just prior to starting MAD for E...

ArtRage #6 – Painting SpongeBob, Adding Highlights and Shadows

Click on the image above to watch the ArtRage Video Tutorial We’re finally getting to SpongeBob in these ArtRage digital painting tutoria...

ArtRage Video #5 - Bump Modes, Paint Thinner and Finishing Patrick

Click on image above for Hi-Res Tutorial Video In ArtRage Process Video #5 we're finishing up the painting of Patrick -- and along the...