Tutorials/Guides

Sarah

I want to learn old timey photo effects, as I was inspired to draw 1930s art thanks to Lackadaisy ^_^

Winter

Text and scrollwork? The evenness and intricacy of even the decoration around your drawings always amazes me...

Astra Crompton

I struggle most with lighting/atmospheric lighting, and you do it so well. I'm excited for as much advice as you can share!

Tracy Butler

Okay. I wouldn't say my thoughts 'accurately' translate to paper, exactly...it always comes out different from what I initially envision. Still, that is definitely something I could talk about a bit in a guide/tutorial about Visual Storytelling. Thanks!

Tracy Butler

Thanks very much - I'm glad you think so! I suppose I'm just a lot more insecure about my writing and less experienced in that area, so I'd feel a bit sheepish about presuming to try to teach anyone anything about it. I'll give some consideration to how I might talk about my approach, though, so that I could perhaps post a 'Thoughts On...' essay at some point. Thank you for commenting, Liina!

I'd love to see something about how you process getting your ideas into visual images accurately, if there's any tips you've picked up for making the mental translation process easier, and how you frame scenes. Sort of like mental cinematography.

Liina Saarm

I would really-really like to read something about writing. Anything, whatever it is you feel like sharing your opinions about. Your story is super gripping and nuanced, but you rarely seem to talk about this aspect of the comic.

Christopher Morton

I love sharing these with newer artist. They are a fantastic resource. I like to see them printed in a book. I would back that 100%

Naomi Kip

I'm always very much intrigued by your backgrounds and would love to know what tools you use for them and how you draw/render them!

El-collector

I'd be very interested to learn how you go about color/palettes and how you integrate it in either character designs or a particular scene (example; such as the scene where Rocky is driving the pie truck in the rain at night). I'm aware that's quite a subjective thing but I imagine there's some rules about that too :)

Tracy Butler

Hehe - I love drawing rooms full of stuff. It's easy to get lost in those details. I will add this one to my list of potential future tutorials. Thanks, Kazoodle!

Tracy Butler

Ah, well, thanks Donald. That's kind of you! Both are hugely broad topics and I'm still learning, but I think I also might be able to share a little bit of useful information in those arenas.

GoobyGnarp

I'm curious on how you do backgrounds and items/props that really makes the image pop to life :D. I'm learning backgrounds as I go and it would be neato deato to get some tips :3

Classical Salamander

Visual storytelling and digital art creation techniques are awesome, and you're awesome at them, so I voted for those things. :)