How a cartoonist makes digital art

There’s a ton of tools for digital art on the market — tablets, styluses, drawing apps — but it can be hard to make sense of it all if you’re just starting to explore all the options available. When I first started drawing comics for my college newspaper, I had no idea what I was doing. I drew with a ballpoint pen and scanned it, and it looked truly awful. Then I got a Wacom tablet, and my art was still awful, but there was room for growth! With my newfound ability to work in layers and smash that undo button, the only way to go was up!

To illustrate my point, here’s a comic I drew in 2010:

And here’s the same comic redrawn now:

Eight years later, my process has stayed pretty much the same. I still use my...

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