Channeling Alfred E Neuman

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I’m trying to figure out Artrage. As an impatient student, I just jump in without reading the manual. I start pushing all of the buttons and try all of the Photoshop keyboard shortcuts (they don’t work). I immediately tweak the brush settings and screw them up irrecoverably and have to reset them. Without a clue how to make my own brush, I try anyway and end up frustrated. In the end I resort to using one of the default oil paint brushes (the Normal Square brush) and paint the guy with a bowl haircut. And…I’m happy with it. Artrage is a blast, and it runs without breaking a sweat on my seven-year old PC. Very cool, Artrage.

I’ve scoured the web looking for Artrage tutorials, but they are scarce. Daniel Ibanez is the most prolific and informative Artrage user I’ve found. Check him out.

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Al Fresco Art Club, Jan 10, 2021: Learn from a Comics Idol named Wally Wood

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22 Panels That Always Work, or some interesting ways to get some variety into these boring panels where some dumb writer has a bunch of lame characters sitting around and talking for page after page

Today’s art club challenge was to learn from a master. My choice of master was Wally Wood, one of the early Mad Magazine artists. The legend is that he compiled a tip sheet for his pencilers so that they would work more efficiently. I made my versions of the first six infallible panels.

Wally was paid by the page; the faster he worked, the more money made. He motto was:

Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.

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