Stuff

I have been working on a batch of my military cartoons, getting them ready for Airman and Citizen Airman magazine and perhaps create a few Marine Corps ones to send off to Leatherneck, but is seems lately they haven't been taking any.
I have been drawing a few more cartoons on my Wacom tablet directly into the computer by way of Macromedia's Flash and coloring the in either Photoshop or Paintshop Pro. This process seems a little weird since I can't get a good feel of how big or small I am drawing things, its just a bit disorienting for me! I am used to drawing in the "real" world and scanning them in to photoshop to color or I bring them up in paintshop pro 9 and oil paint them, follow these links to see the scanned and painted cartoons:

http://www.af.mil/news/airman/0505/pope.shtml
http://www.af.mil/news/airman/0405/pope.shtml

I am kinda taking the place of gentleman by the name of Jake Schuffert who died a few years a, but he had been doing that magazines cartoons since before the Air Force was the Air Force! (Prior to 1947) Back until a couple of years ago in the advent of the photoshope and digital printing era, cartoons were cheapest to print as "line art" only which would not intail doing halftone screens and color seperations, a long heartbreaking excercise I know because i did that sort of stuff for ten years! So line art was the main stay of the cartoons so Jake's stuff was drawn with pen and ink and then he would add shading with Zipatone adhesive screens, you know the little black dots in cartoons?!? But now the industry has changed and you don't have to do backflips to print color, so I thought it would be a cool idea to start painting a oil painting color into my cartoons! And I think it has a different and interesting look, but you be the judge!

I am actually thinking of gettting Corel's "Painter" program.... hmmmmm