The gagline and smile file box was reset in grey and to their size by the magazine's art dept.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
First for Women cartoon - Roy Delgado
This drawing appears on page 98 in the October issue of the magazine. The drawing was submitted as a print from a black and white ink drawing ( using a Micron pen ) with the shading in the Dad's trousers and the boy's pants already inserted in the print using my trusty Corel PaintShopPro 9 program.
The gagline and smile file box was reset in grey and to their size by the magazine's art dept.
The gagline and smile file box was reset in grey and to their size by the magazine's art dept.
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I just saw this in First for Women yesterday. Nice job! First recently sent me a reply to one of my batches that they are holding one gag for further consideration. Let's hope it gets some positive consideration.
If you don't mind me asking, I use Micron pens too. What style/tip size Micron pen do you use? Also, what demensions do you draw most of your gags in? They always appear that they have been drawn larger than 7 x 7 inches.
Best,
Gary Z.
Hi Gary,
I use Micron (and Pittman) pens in sizes ranging from 2 - 8, depending how large I am drawing the particular scene and how much detail is in that drawing. In this particular simple drawing with just a couple people and mimimal background I use like a size 8 and work as large as possible, even 7.5 x 7.5 inches. I found when you work large ( keeping in mind that the drawing will be reduced much smaller ) AND using a fat pen size like an 8 . . it FORCES you to keep the drawings SIMPLE.
Another thing I do is sometimes, if I have a very busy drawing with a lot of people or heavy detail involved, is I draw the cartoon on an 11 x 14 piece of paper and go all the way out to the 8 inch height and go as wide as possible . . . THEN, I REDUCE the drawing on my copier to an 8.5 x 11 inch size . . and now I can place it in my scanner and finish it on the computer.
Hope this helps and good luck with your work.
Roy
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