This inspiring book provides a detailed guide to drawing,painting and manipulating your own digital cartoons. It ispacked full with professional advice, fantastic examplesand practical step-by-step techniques showing how tocreate amazing characters and worlds. The book beginsby introducing the essential equipment and types ofcomputer software needed. A useful guide to digitaltechniques follows, which explains how to develop ascanned image, how to combine different media, addspeech bubbles and much more. The main sectionfeatures a range of projects for practising the techniques,and producing a variety of cartoon styles.• A teach-yourself practical guide to drawing cartoons onyour computer, suitable for beginners as well as moreexperienced artists.• Introduces all the essential computer software andequipment, such as Adobe Illustrator and Corel Painterand the animation programs Flash and ImageReady.