How are the cartoons drawn in Photoshop?
If you’ve ever seen cartoon animation cels for sale, and had a chance to look at them close up, Doctor Fun isn’t that much different. There is usually a minimum of three layers, not physical layers to the cartoon while I’m drawing it. These are not physical layers, but rather computerized layers managed by Photoshop, that stack on top of one another. One layer is just the black and white drawing itself. Another layer is the background. And the last layer is the actual coloring of the action in the foreground. While I’m working on a cartoon, the number of layers usually expands, as I’ll want to draw things and keep them separated until it’s time to put the whole thing together. The artwork is kept in a separate file, and I pop it into the template and add the caption, date, and all the other text as the last step. (The file I upload only has one layer.) There are a number of techniques I like that I usually use on every cartoon, and some that I only use to solve a particular problem. Ov
