Cowboy toon step-by-step

[Nate Owens]

This is a very basic process (technique) of (one way) to do a doodle of a cowboy (or whatever) from scratch... no scans. Done using Painter.

Click the picture to see the step-by-step process

[laughingnome]

neat stuff Nate,
do you use a tablet or mousepen ?

stu

[Nate Owens]

Thanks, stu.

I am using an old wacom intuous 2 pen tablet.
May have to change that if I go to Windows xp64 because the Wacom drivers under 64bit seem to be only for usb hookup and mine is serial port connection. Wacom says they do not support an adaptor (serial-to-usb) hookup and that may result in erratic response to the pen.

[Frenchy Pilou]

Cool caricature and tut
You have a colleague here
Making numerous tuts about caricatures

[laughingnome]

same here Nate intuous 2, nice tablets, mines usb
i generally use a clicky pencil to draw then paint the scanned image in photoshop using layers.
pretty much the same workflow and technique

Frenchy i always enjoy your work

stu

[Nate Owens]

That's some awesome caricature work Frenchy!... lots to look at. I bookmarked it for a return look when I have time to drool... have you seen Seiler's work? (Time magazine, lots of recent published stuff - Guitar Player magazine, etc.)
Don't miss Kruger - one of the best on the planet!

Stu... I used to scan pencil work... sometimes I still do... mostly I just start right out with layers in Painter with the trusty Wacom pen tablet. I love those clicker pencils, no more flipping over to push out new lead. Now if pencils only came with a Ctrl-Z button!

[Frenchy Pilou]

yes they are good!
in France there is a trio Morchoine, Jean Mulatier, Patrice Ricord (flip book)
(sites in english )