Tag: Drawn.ca

  • Naughty Superman

    Frequent commenter Myra has an odd collection of items at her blog Gimrack Hospital.  She is always presenting odd medical history facts, devices or throws us completely for a loop with her fetish or corset posts.   There is a post over at Drawn.ca that talks about a new book that is a compilation of toons drawn by Superman creator Joe Shuster which made me think of her.

    It seems the rights to Superman were no longer his so in order to make ends meet, Joe decided to draw some racy cartoons for an under the counter magazine called “Nights of Horror”.  Well someone found out about it recently and decided to publish a collection called Secret Identity: The fetish art of Superman co-creator Joe Shuster. (link has examples for all you dirty minded readers)  Too bad Playboy wasn’t around yet.  He may have made a living drawing cartoons for them.

  • Liz Lomax creates cool Caricature Sculptures

    While perusing www.drawn.ca, I came across an entry about Liz Lomax.  Rather than the tradition pen and paper caricature, Liz uses clay figures placed against backgrounds that she adjusts in photoshop for the finished product.    Pretty amazing stuff.    Couldn’t get the video to embed her but you can see a video of her creating Oasis singer Noel Gallagher at:

     
    The Making of Noel Gallagher from Liz Lomax on Vimeo.  or

    http://drawn.ca/2009/02/17/watch-liz-lomax-sculpt/

    and you can check out her website with more samples of her work.

    **** UPDATE *****

    Didn’t realize Liz had a blog as well so here it is.

  • Free Font of your own Handwriting

    Thanks to this great tip at www.drawn.ca, there is a online tool called YourFonts.com where you can create a font of your own handwriting.

    A great tool, especially for cartoonists who do all/most of their work on the computer. All you need to do is go to the website (or click on this image)

    YourFonts.com Online Font Generator

    The process is easy:

    • Print the Template
    • Fill it out
    • Scan it and Upload it
    • Put the finished product in your Fonts folder.

    Two things to think about.   One, I think I would have better results to my liking if I found a medium point versus a fine point pen. Second, pay attention to the hash marks so you keep your lettering the same size. The first time I tried it, I didn’t pay enough attention to that and when I typed a sentence, it looked like a rollercoaster.

    So introducing the Bearman Font:

    Bearman Cartoon Font created at YourFonts.com
    Bearman Cartoon Font created at YourFonts.com