Category: Cartoon
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Self portraits
My first digital self portraits using vectors was copied from a photo. I struggled with the hair and in particular the beard. With the glasses I went off on one and ended up making them hyper-realistic as an experiment. These were glasses from a few years ago. See my other post about hyper-realistic drawing of…
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Dunnington sunset
I had taken a photograph of the highstreet of the village in which I grew up in North Yorkshire. I used the “rule of thirds” when composing the photo and thought nothing more of it. I was casting around for a scene to draw using vectors and chose the high street scene. I was struck…
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Jazz artist cartoons
I started a series of jazz cartoons recently. All in Affinity Designer, of course. First off was my mate Andy Mitchell on double bass. I spent a lot of time getting the double bass right. I decided to use Golden Ratio proportions and thought I might end up with a good cartoon bass, Instead, it…
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Uhura and the free Nichelle campaign
Wanting to improve my vector skills j decided to make an image of lieutenant Uhura from the original Star Trek series. Most of it is flat vector fills. On the hair and boots I went for a cheap shine effect by adding Gaussian blur. I discovers a new trick. Once you have the fills and…