In this episode, John “Doc” Roshell shows how to create an authentic-looking comic book sound effect in Procreate with fonts and Procreate’s Distort tool.
Lettering in Procreate #6 – creating FX with type
Lettering in Procreate #5 – drawing tails
Doc “John” Roshell shows two ways to draw comic book balloon tails in Procreate, and fill them with color.
Tutorial: Font Creation
Moment-by-moment creation of our Sound Effect fonts SHIVER and SHAKE
Tutorial: Pop-Up Letters
This fantastic technique was shown to us by Saul Griffith, who publishes a series of how-to comic strips called “Howtoons.” Saul helped us design a “Popup” face for our font Up Up And Away font to make this as easy as pie!
Mmmmmm, pie….
Continue reading “Tutorial: Pop-Up Letters”Giving Artwork the ‘Comic Book Look’
How to create a halftone-dot effect on color artwork in Photoshop.
Bogi writes:
“I was wondering if you know what is the way to turn a photograph into a comic book style picture… i.e. to have an outline and the fill colors to be even dots. Actually, it is the look used by Roy Lichtenstein in his “pop-art” series. Is there a plug-in for Corel PhotoPaint or Adobe PhotoShop? I tried various ways using “halftone” filters ..etc, but the effect is not quite there yet.”
Bogi —
You can actually achieve this look using just the basic tools of Photoshop. Here’s how…