Tutorials
First iPad Caricature Tutorial of 2012
To kick off the new year, Angie Jordan, the world’s first iPad Caricature Artist, has just recently created a new video of her drawing caricatures with the iPad.
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iPad Caricature Review: iFaraday stylus and ArtStudio
Angie just finished her latest video review/tutorial. We review a new stylus pen for the iPad, called the iFaraday stylus pen.
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Digital Caricature Podcast: Angie’s Phalangies Ep. 002
In this second episode of Angie’s Phalangies, we go into a longer description on what tools Angie uses for creating efficient caricatures. Digital Caricature Podcast: Angie’s Phalangies Ep. 002
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Digital Caricature Podcast: Angie’s Phalangies Ep. 001
In this first episode of Angie’s Phalangies, we go into a short description on how to setup Corel Painter for doing efficient caricatures. Digital Caricature Podcast: Angie’s Phalangies Ep. 001
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Creating a Facebook Fan Page for Artists and Entertainers
Many artists, magicians, and comedians have been using Facebook more frequently for marketing purposes. This is one of the more popular social media sites and a Fan Page is the perfect solution to building a community around you and your brand.
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Spreading the Word: Marketing Tip for Caricature Artists
Here’s a quick little tip for caricature artists doing live events. In fact, I do this for both Live Digital and Traditional Easel caricatures: custom labels on each drawing.
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How to Build a Caricature Display Board for Live Events
For years at events, Angie has used a custom display board that I built. Since then, we’ve given a few out as gifts to friends and many other artists have been asking how it was made.
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The Creative Process of a Digital Cartoon Design
Since many people have asked about my design process, I thought I’d share the breakdown. A step by step of the cartoon being created.
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Toon Boom Tutorial Published!
Recently, one of my animation tutorials was published in an international publication, called Exaggerated Features. This tutorial goes over getting started in Toon Boom.
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Photoshop Brush Set Download: Coffee 1
As many of you know, I’m an avid coffee lover. I also needed to create a word paper look for a project recently and used some coffee stains to add to that feel. This is our second set of Photoshop Brush downloads, based entirely on coffee stains!
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Photoshop Brush Set Download: Markers 1
Digital Blacksmiths is proud to offer our first set of original Photoshop Brushes. We use customized Photoshop brushes every day and have created a large library of these brushes.
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Photoshop Tip: Creating Stroke Outlines
A rather simple tutorial on adding a stroke to the edge of a layer item in Photoshop. This is geared towards Photoshop CS4, but can be done in previous versions as well.
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Smart Objects in Photoshop CS4
Photoshop introduced a great little feature awhile back in CS2 called Smart Objects. This handy little feature was ignored by yours truly at first. Then I began to understand the power behind this little gem.
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Custom Brushes in Photoshop
Photoshop has tons of built in brushes, and countless more on the web, but sometimes we need a specific type of brush look. For this, we learn to create custom brushes in Photoshop.
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Corel Painter Video: Portrait Drawing Demo 01
This is a time lapse video I created while creating a caricature in Corel Painter, my “weapon of choice” for these types of fun designs.
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