I, Claudius, Draw

Due to the growing popularity of my cartoon graphics, I have revamped and expanded this area of my original designs. I call it "The Scrapbook"

I have reformatted all the images as GIFs and have resized them wherever possible to 100x100 for overall consistency and quicker loading.

That's something people never ask me: How do you do it? How do you make your drawings? Probably no one gives a rat's butt how I do my drawings. But I'll tell you anyway. For posterity.

The tools I use for cartoons are the suite of programs by CorelDraw: CorelDraw, Photopaint and Corel Dream 3D. These programs can make even a color blind no-talent like me look good. The tools are as easy to use as a beginner might need and as powerful as a pro requires. Also, Corel has a great website at www.corelmag.com that supports their magazine, but also provides many free articles as well as good advice and tips to the casual visitor.

The techniques I use for creating the cartoons are as follows:

• Some were drawn by hand, colored, then scanned into Photopaint for tweaking and converting.
• Some were sketched by hand, inked, scanned and colored in Photopaint, then converted.
• Others were scanned into Coreldraw, vector-traced, colored and exported into Photopaint for tweaking and conversion.
• Still others were created completly in CorelDraw.

All of these techniques have their advantages. For example, when I'm traveling I can make a lot of pencil drawings on a sketch pad for later scanning, so I don't have to be around my computer to create. On the other hand, It's great to be able to change the color of one region of a drawing by clicking a button or change the shape of a line without having to erase a lot (and believe me: I erase a lot).

So please use these cartoons to add a little bit of body language to your site. If you need something specific, don't hesitate to ask me. Send Email to cartoonist@i-claudius.com. I hope you have as much fun using them as I've had drawing them.