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Controlling the hue and lightness can give emotion and contrast to a panel. Sometimes, however, to speed it up I will make a layer for a quick change of lightness, rather than create a new...

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Just finished artwork for the cover of my Kindle comic. Volume one of my web comic, final compositing (adding text, other art objects) done in another program.

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I like passing along little tips to new users of Artrage I discover, more specifically for cartooning/digital illustrating. When I have large areas of a color to fill, I will start with my ink...

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These settings will work for drawing with a tablet or a mouse-a tablet with pen pressure sensitivity will do better, but I know not everyone is ready to jump into buying a good tablet yet....

It's been fun working on this web comic for almost 8 years. You can see this guy and all the other characters here.

Yes, Intuos is made by Wacom. Very pleased with it.

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Here is a sample of how I will split up layers depending on the depth and position of certain elements in a panel. In the most current image for my web comic I want the female character to be...

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I always work to keep my characters on separate layers, as well as using different colors for them for last minutes adjustments to the panel. Once I have them tweaked in size, position, etc. I...

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When I'm cartooning with ArtRage, I now get in the habit of leaving notes for myself on the pencil layer. In this panel, matching the angle I wanted the slant on was important. You can see...

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Practicing with my new Intuo Pro tablet. Colors on separate layers is crucial.

Thanks-you can see the comic here.

Artrage is my go to for creating panels for the pages of my webcomic. Here is a montage panel from the next page to be published.
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I love using ArtRage for creating my webcomics and would love to see it become a major tool to create animations too. This could be a huge boon for the program (which has probably been voiced in this...

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Sometimes I enjoy adding some mood to a panel in my webcomic and will play around with a solid color layer between my color layer and ink layer. By separating the black outline of the picture,...

Here's a panel from the most recent page published of my webcomic, "Proxy: the Continuing Adventures of Michael Leesome". I export my images out of Artrage and do my page layout in a free program...

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When creating layers of color for panels in my webcomic, I save time filling in large swatches of color by first outlining a containing edge of a specific color. This will prevent the color...

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One method I use to speed up production on my webcomic illustrations is to make layers to isolate patches of color, then merging them for final export as a .png to place in the page framework....

Wow, Mark W, that worked perfect. Using the remove color matte did the trick, liked taking aweay old school blue lines. Thanks.

Is there a way to erase a selected color, or modify a select color only, something similar to a blue pencil erase functions? I use any color but black for my initial pencil sketching for my webcomic,...

great job.

I can't tell you how great Artrage has made creating my webcomic. Here is a recent panel from my online comic. I use Artrage for all my concept sketches And final art, then construct it all and add...

I keep forgetting to take a moment to snapshot some samples of my construction of panels for my webcomic. I place my actors on separate layers and even use different colors for the penciling of...

Interesting site....great job.