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		<title>Bug Pudding Sketching</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of the layout process for my comic strip, Bug Pudding, I make character pose sketches. I work both traditionally with pencil and paper as well as digitally using SketchBook Pro, Illustrator, and Photoshop. (more on the process steps in future posts). Here are some recent sketches for the strip. These were drawn on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using a Model Sheet</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Model sheets are important not just for animation projects but for comic strips too. Even if you aren&#8217;t working with a team of artists, it is very useful to capture, for reference purposes, the way that a character looks. Of course, characters evolve and change the more that you draw them, but with the help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Digitally Painted Backgrounds and Props</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Animators normally think of characters, props, and backgrounds as separate elements. These distinctions are less formal in a sequential comic. But none the less, in the age of digital production, it is possible to composite comic strip panels similarly to the way we composite shots in an animated movie.  To apply this approach in my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visual Fun</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the best parts of drawing a comic strip is doing panels that are just plain visual fun. I particularly enjoy drawing action poses or &#8220;in your face&#8221; poses. Here are a couple examples from a recent Bug Pudding strip. This was a really interesting sketch to draw. I wanted to capture as much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Banner Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just updated the Bug Pudding comic site with an improved look and a new top banner. Part of publishing a comic on the web is constructing and maintaining your publishing platform. For many people this is a difficult task due to the &#8220;roll your own&#8221; aspect of customizing a website. I use a plug-in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drawing a Comic Strip Classically</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Bill Riling loves drawing comics and he is a master of the classical approach to creating and drawing a comic strip. His creation is called The Adventures of Lewis and Cluck. In this article, I&#8217;ve included some behind the scenes insight into Bill&#8217;s creative process. I hope you will pick up some valuable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laying Out A Comic Strip</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many ways to approach creating a regularly published comic strip. Some cartoonists start with the main gag and layout the strip storyboard style while others approach their strip as a written script and then break that script down into panel shots. It is really a matter of which approach for writing is most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drawing a Comic Strip Classically</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Bill Riling loves drawing comics and he is a master of the classical approach to creating and drawing a comic strip. His creation is called The Adventures of Lewis and Cluck. In this article, I&#8217;ve included some behind the scenes insight into Bill&#8217;s creative process. I hope you will pick up some valuable [...]]]></description>
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