Robot Calendar - February

This month’s Open Swim is going to be filled with Tips and Tricks from the drawing masters. Those of you with laptops with Adobe Photoshop installed are highly advised to bring them. There will be traditional advice as well. So brush your teeth and comb your hair, a little hygiene never hurt anyone. And come to the CLAW’s first EduCLAWtional Open Swim. And don’t forget to bring your own drawing tools!

Oh! The CLAW has decided to stir things up and try a new venue for this event. Come and join us at…

Amocat Café
625 St. Helens Ave, Tacoma, WA
WEDNESDAY, August 25th @ 7:30

Disclaimer: The CLAW Open Swim is an adult oriented meeting. Language, art, and varied other bad influences will be uncensored PG13 – R – X.

Apparently these were big back in the 60’s; FAMOUS ARTISTS CARTOON COURSES! I discovered this website today which is happily scanning lots of vintage comics for our viewing delight.

So far my favorite post is HOW TO DRAW PRETTY GIRLS.  As somebody who struggled to draw pretty girls all though adolescence imagine my delight! These vintage drawing lessons even have real photographs of pretty girls incorporated into the lesson.  HOW TO DRAW THE MARVEL WAY, had nothing like that (Don’t get me wrong, I love HOW TO DRAW THE MARVEL WAY)!

Even so, other important CARTOON COURSES from the site I found interesting:

• Famous Artists Cartoon Course Lesson 6 Anatomy
• Famous Artists Cartoon Course Lesson 8 Action and the Figure
• or just browse the entire category of CARTOON COURSES yourself!

Hey while i’m sharing cool stuff I found on the internet, I recently RSS subscribed to a site called FFFFOUND! It is prettymuch a constant stream of inspirational design and photography.   It’s like Drawn.ca but without the boring parts and updated every second.

Excelsior!

Science is truly a boon to the modern cartoonist.  Today we learn how to make own own TRUE TYPE FONT in a matter of minutes using the free services of yourfonts.com

You can do it in two ways. Print the font generator templates, write in all the letters with your favorite pen, scan & upload to the generator OR do what I did by downloading the template as a gif, bring into photoshop and write in all the boxes with your wacom tablet.  Check out the font I made in about 10 minutes:

So yeah you don’t have to use that lame comic book font you and everybody else has been using in their webcomics; you can afford to be original!

Download the RR Anderson Cartoonist Font AS SEEN ON C.L.A.W.!