More Drawing Adjustments

Blogs are annual, right? ;)
Yeah, I'm bad at this.

Anyway...more changes in the drawing department.
My hand has abandoned me and I'm drawing almost nothing with pencil & ink these days.
I can draw loosely with a pencil okay, but inking has become quite frustrating. I can't draw curved lines without wobbles and can only draw straight lines if they can be done with short, quick movements. And I have to stop frequently to "crackle" my fingers. I've given up lettering entirely.

Fortunately I can still draw with a computer mouse so that's what I'm doing mostly.
Photoshop is much more forgiving of my spastic line work, I can erase and redraw with the click of the pointer. My latest editorial cartoon for InDepthNH was drawn entirely in Photoshop on my iMac.
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I have a large library of previously-drawn artwork to draw upon (literally) which I can recycle and use as elements in new cartoons. 
​For example:

PREVIOUS CARTOON

OLD ART USED AS GUIDE FOR NEW ART

AD SHADING WITH PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES

ISOLATE THE ELEPHANT

MAKE THE OLD ART DISAPPEAR

"PEEL" AND ADD COLOR

PREVIOUSLY USED ART

CHANGE HIS CLOTHES

ADD SHADING & COLOR

PLACE ELEMENTS, DRAW THE BAG

SHADE, COLOR & REWRITE OF VOICE BALLOON

ADD THE FINAL TOUCHES AND WA-LA! A FINISHED CARTOON

 Needless to say this process takes a lot longer than the ol' pencil it, ink it, scan it, color it method, which is one of the reasons you're seeing fewer cartoons from me.

My R.F.D. comic strip is drawn the same way now also:

And the roughs I draw for the gags I write for Snuffy Smith. These roughs go to the strip's artist, John Rose. All of the finished artwork you see here is his.
Old school pencil with computer lettering on the left, current all-computer on the right.
Further below are some of the sheets from my digital library of Snuffy character art that I continue to build. I'm all about the cut & paste now.

Old school

New school

That's it for now.
​-MM