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How Gabe Swarr draws his webcomic

In these videos, Gabe Swarr shows how he creates his webcomic Big Pants Mouse using, first, Photoshop for his roughs, and then Flash for his final artwork. Note how Gabe pulls parts of his characters, pre-drawn, from a library of stock parts, but also mentions how he does this only when appropriate, and still draws poses from scratch when stock pieces don’t exist.

(via Cartoon Brew)

  • http://www.cgregori.com/ Chris Gregori

    Very cool! Thanks for that.

  • shawnskeldon

    A yellow mouse with big pants… hmmm…
    Mousebob Bigpants?
    Aside from that, I don't know that I'd exactly brag about reusing the same drawings over and over. That's just lazy. Not that more don't do it. I just don't think most would brag about it.

  • camilografico

    wowwww!! great,

  • http://twitter.com/pcweenies Krishna Sadasivam

    Very interesting workflow. I'm curious to know what Gabe uses for his brush settings in Flash to get that nice line variation.

  • http://alsobagels.com/ Bagels

    For one thing, if he's been drawing the same characters for 12 or 13 years that pre-dates Spongebob. And it's pretty clear how little he's actually reusing. Get off your horse.

  • loren

    when he says he draws in photoshop, what with? Just the mouse or some kind of stylus and tablet? I'm getting into drawing and want to know how to do some on a computer. Cheers

  • Ricardo

    That's with a tablet for sure.

  • arcticcircle

    Wow, looks like it would be a lot easier just to ink it from scratch. CAn't imagine scrolling through all those symbols in the library….