All educational material on comics and general art.
Greetings! Cloudscape is proud to announce a new contest: the Monster Alphabet. Every week, a name for a strange new creature will be posted, each one beginning with a new letter of the alphabet. You will have until the following Wednesday to create a drawing of whatever bizarre monster or […]
Here’s another addition to our “Main Street Giants.” Kate Ebensteiner gives us the “Giant of False Creek.”
In answer to our request, many talented artists have together shown us many of the giants that wander Main Street. [nggallery id=72] Respectively, the artists are: Cole Penton Reetta Linjama Christine Eberle Mara-Dor Coman Jeff Ellis Oliver McTavish-Wisden Thanks, guys! Anyone who missed submitting this time around, we are calling […]
Greetings Cloudscape and other giants! As part of this month’s mission in drawing attention to our upcoming Giants of Main Street anthology, we are initiating “Draw a Giant” week. Draw a picture of a giant, any giant, and send it to me, the Cloudscape webmaster, at webmaster@cloudscapecomics.com. In keeping with […]
If you’re looking to submit work as an artist to comic book companies, including the Big Four and independents, this workshop will help you get your portfolio presentation ready. Using tips collected from industry professionals and examples of common mistakes new artists make when approaching editors, participants will learn […]
Over at cartoonSNAP, Sherm Cohen has a bunch of stuff about story boarding and cartooning. I personally have his Character Design book to use while teaching my 6-12 year old students to break out of some of their drawing habits. His tutorials are, by no means, a replacement for […]
by Bevan Thomas We are back once against to the Name Game, where I take a name from DC or Marvel Comics, and develop it into a totally new character of my own creation who is illustrated by one of the many talented artists I know. This character manages to […]
by Bevan Thomas We return again to the Name Game, where classic old comic book names are attached to totally new characters. I’ve always been a huge fan of Marvel Comics’ Ghost Rider, specifically the Johnny Blaze version. The later nicer nineties one I could take or leave, but there […]
by Bevan Thomas The next installment in the Name Game, where I take the name of some DC or Marvel comics character, and construct a totally new entity from it (for either Universe-D or Universe-M, respectively), with the final result illustrated by some talented artist I know. Today, we have […]
by Bevan Thomas The next installment in the Name Game, where I take the name of some DC or Marvel comics character, and construct a totally new entity from it (for either Universe-D or Universe-M, respectively), with the final result illustrated by some talented artist I know. Today, we have […]
