Pen and paper drawing tutorials (not mine)

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Pen and paper drawing tutorials (not mine)

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When I first looked into doing art in egoboo, I did a quick survey of drawing tutorials on the internet. I wanted to be able to reproduce some of the original egoboo art. Aaron's drawings seemed to be a cross between a "watercolor" style and pen and ink illustration. Booger's were definitely more cartooinish.

Aaron's title images
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Booger's Drawings
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Wandering around the internet, I found an artist that was giving detailed manga drawing lessons by Mark Crilley. Check them out here.

Some other manga tutorials


I also determined that the style of egoboo approaches a manga style called "chibi" (mostly because of the super-deformed bodoes, and the simplicity of the facial features).



Generic drawing lessons


Digital inking / shading (hard to tell if this is high-res raster of vector...)


Even some SVG (scalable vector graphics) stuff!


Generic photoshop

    http://www.youtube.com/user/Stormingleech
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Nice collection of tutorials and art examples....

I should expound that the style is like a western version of chibi... In particular the round, beady eyes resemble North American cartoons such as Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes (which may in themselves be interesting points of reference).

Egoboo art is actually harder to reproduce than you may immediately think simply because there's nothing in existence that is quite the same.
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Somewhat like plush toys, as well. Especially the COBOLs.
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And the Zombis (and Butchers).
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