Video Tutorial Archives - Alison Beere Art /category/video-tutorial/ Cartooning Makes Life A Light-Hearted Business! Wed, 09 Mar 2022 14:40:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 /wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-alison-beere-favicon-32x32.png Video Tutorial Archives - Alison Beere Art /category/video-tutorial/ 32 32 Black and White Cartooning — Creating Vignette Effect for Focus /2019/creating-vignette-effect-black-and-white-cartooning/ Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:50:01 +0000 https://alisonbeere.boomer.local/ It was a night to remember at our local theatre The red velvet curtains shimmied upwards to reveal a tiny figure clad in a grey mouse costume, skewered to the stage by the glare of the spotlight. The mouse’s pink muzzle was a-tremble with terror and when a giant ginger cat pounced towards her…  she […]

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]]> Drawing Digitally & How You Limit The Fish Food Effect /2019/drawing-digitally/ Fri, 07 Jun 2019 10:00:51 +0000 https://alisonbeere.boomer.local/ Do you love the magical power of the Un-Do button that comes with drawing digitally The freedom, the sense of possibility and the multitudes of textures at your fingertips You’re not alone! In response to my post last week about the ongoing relevance (or not) of the analogue cartooning process, I received a wonderful response […]

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]]> 3 Reasons Why an “Analogue” Cartooning Process Can Still Be Relevant /2019/cartooning-process/ /2019/cartooning-process/#comments Fri, 31 May 2019 10:10:14 +0000 https://alisonbeere.boomer.local/ ‘Fast and furious’ hand-drawn cartooning process! I am a staunch believer that you can still get into the cartooning process the old-fashioned way — fast and furious pencil sketches followed by a nib and Indian ink and finally adding colour with watercolour paint or pencils. Why, you may ask Why an ‘analogue’ cartooning process CAN […]

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]]> /2019/cartooning-process/feed/ 6 How to Draw Boots {3 Principles That Make It Simpler} /2018/how-to-draw-boots/ Fri, 15 Jun 2018 07:19:13 +0000 https://alisonbeere.boomer.local/ How to Draw Boots {For Cartooning} Yvonne sat with her pencil in hand frowning at the page. “Winter again,” she thought. “That means my cartoon character needs to wear boots. Ugh!” If, like Yvonne, the thought of drawing footwear makes your heart sink into your boots, take a deep breath and relax. We’ll look at […]

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]]> Drawing Cartoon Hands Tips /2018/drawing-cartoon-hands-tips/ Sat, 09 Jun 2018 10:35:10 +0000 https://alisonbeere.boomer.local/ Specifically, here are two drawing cartoon hands tips in the form of questions to help you troubleshoot your work and  can get better, faster. The two questions to ask yourself when drawing cartoon hands are: what is in front and/or what is the outline Of course it is always important also to know which question […]

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]]> Drawing Stroke Exercises — Making Confident Pencil Strokes /2018/drawing-stroke-exercises/ Sat, 13 Jan 2018 07:00:30 +0000 https://alisonbeere.boomer.local/ Drawing Stroke Exercises — Simple Techniques for Better Outlining Have you ever brushed your teeth with the ‘wrong’ hand If you haven’t, you should try it — assuming of course that you use a regular toothbrush rather than an electric one :). It’s much harder than you’d expect, right?! Your brush strokes feel as if […]

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]]> Deep Practice Examples in Cartooning /2018/deep-practice-examples-cartooning/ Sat, 06 Jan 2018 07:00:50 +0000 https://alisonbeere.boomer.local/ Deep practice examples ‘live’ from Da Vinci What is deep practice Deep practice is slowing yourself down and working on just one small element of something at a time. It’s an idea that I first read about in Daniel Coyle’s book The Talent Code, and have adapted to cartooning ever since. Why does it matter […]

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]]> Cartoon Face Drawing — How to Draw Cartoon Faces {Simply} /2017/cartoon-face-drawing/ Fri, 24 Feb 2017 11:22:22 +0000 https://alisonbeere.boomer.local/ Cartoon face drawing isn’t rocket science but perhaps you (like Tammy down below) would like to know the principles behind drawing rounded, realistic, 3-D ones Tammy thwacks her pencil down onto her notebook in frustration. Despite copious amounts of erasing and tweaking, her cartoon face drawings are looking … yucky. Insipid. Un-interesting. And worst of all — […]

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]]> How to Draw Stick Figure Profiles /2017/how-to-draw-stick-figure/ Sat, 11 Feb 2017 05:54:37 +0000 https://alisonbeere.boomer.local/ Knowing how to draw stick figure profiles is far more useful than simple “face-on” stick figures. However, it comes with a couple of challenges around perspective and foreshortening. Your face-on stick figure is symmetrical, and you can see 2 eyes and ears, 2 arms and legs. However, as soon as your Stickies are at an angle […]

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]]> Mindfulness Exercises (With a Pencil) /2017/mindfulness-exercises/ Fri, 06 Jan 2017 10:05:01 +0000 https://alisonbeere.boomer.local/ Mindfulness exercises: do you know any fun, creative ones With mindfulness all the rage and New Year resolutions making their annual appearance, why not find out how to use mindfulness to relax and re-energise in the next 5 minutes I know, not everyone believes in making New Year resolutions If you’re a resolution-sceptic (as I was — you’re […]

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