Resurrecting Insure Tennessee
Insure Tennessee
Insure Tennessee
Smart ass Watch
Here’s my non-fiction, autobiographical cartoon about my recently getting my California Marijuana license!
My local altie newspaper, the Santa Barbara Independent, printed this on the back page of their current issue – there it is below. I thought it looked pretty good. The colors always darken up in print, so I try to use light, fruity colors in my cartoons; they hold up better.
And look how cool my autobiographical marijuana license cartoon is in Spanish!
High on the Super Bowl
Digesting Health Care Plans
Digesting Health Plans
Here’s my latest cartoon. First, there is the rough sketch; here I drew it in hard pencil and came back to tighten it up with a ball point pen.
Next I draw up the finished line art in pencil on drafting vellum. Â This is the image that most people will see in the newspapers.
Then I do the color version, for the newspapers that print in color and for the web. Â I really wish I could do “scratch ‘n sniff.”
Obama Healthcare Lemmings
More of My Sketches
Readers seem to like it when I post my rough sketches, so here we go again, with my sketches for my last couple of cartoons. Â The first one is the Obama Healthcare Caduceus. Â I do the rough sketch in hard pencil on slick paper, so I’m not tempted to do details and render.
Then I trace over the sketch on drafting vellum, with a hard pencil that I scan to look like ink and save as a bitmap file for black and white printing. Â The image below is what most readers see in the newspaper.
Then I add the color in Photoshop. Â I use rather unsophisticated colors because newspaper printing is lousy, and if I use anything that isn’t pastel and bright I get complaints from editors.
Here’s the sketch for another health care cartoon. Â Same thing here, hard pencil on slick paper.
I did the same thing with the pencil on vellum, but this time I just added a bit of gray tone to the drawing because I wasn’t quite inspired to color this one.