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How To Draw A Girl In Flash…

I get quite a few emails from people wanting to know what software I use to create my illustrations... most are surprised when I tell them I produce about 95% of my work directly in Flash. Below is a video demo of how I generally create my finished illustration. I start of with a scanned pencil sketch and trace over it in Flash using primarily the "line" and "selection" tools, along with the occasional pencil stroke. Enjoy!

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This was posted on Saturday, December 31st, 2005 at 3:19 am. You can follow any responses through the RSS 2.0 feed.

26 responses to “How To Draw A Girl In Flash…”

  1. § Marion on December 31st, 2005 at 6:18 am

    Interesting to see. I also use Flash sometimes, but do you use extra layers to draw over your sketch? When I draw directly in Flash in an imported image, the lines vanish…I’m not a
    real Flash expert…but I wondered how you could draw In the sketch itself.Bye!

  2. § GingerPixels on December 31st, 2005 at 10:59 am

    I really enjoyed the demo! Happy New Year, and much success to you in 2006!

  3. § e on December 31st, 2005 at 11:30 am

    Hey Fitz, really cool. Thanks for sharing your drawing method!
    :)
    e

  4. § valgalart on December 31st, 2005 at 1:46 pm

    this is so great! Thank You!!!

  5. § shoofly on December 31st, 2005 at 3:36 pm

    what a great resource! thanks for setting this up!

  6. § Jim on January 1st, 2006 at 12:04 pm

    VERY COOL! I always wondered how the process worked. Especially the highlighting.

    Jim

  7. § roz on January 1st, 2006 at 4:47 pm

    That is way too cool. Thanks for sharing. I don’t work digitally and I find it fascninating! Very clever.

  8. § garth on January 2nd, 2006 at 2:22 am

    Thanks for sharing! I’m finding a lot of illustrators use Flash lately. I’m interested to know why you chose Flash over other vector illustration programs. I love animating in Flash, but have always had difficulty drawing in it. Is it because it just what you know best? You are very talented…

  9. § Holly on January 2nd, 2006 at 11:13 am

    Love this. You win for most effort! Hands down even! Cheers!

  10. § Michael on January 2nd, 2006 at 1:47 pm

    Great! Thanks for this video tutorial Brad. As one who uses Photoshop and Painter mostly it’s fun to see what other tools are available out there.

  11. § Madeline on January 3rd, 2006 at 10:34 pm

    Wow!! That is truly amazing. I sat here inches from my monitor watching the whole thing. I’m ok in photoshop, but still inept with illustration and have only played around in flash.
    Basically, I’m speechless. It was wonderful to see it, thanks for all the effort!! I’m still shaking my head going “wow”.

  12. § steven lim on January 5th, 2006 at 8:04 pm

    wow. i’m totally impressed!
    i have got to try this! thanks!
    steven lim
    daly city, CA uSa

  13. § Mike Paglia on January 18th, 2006 at 6:06 pm

    WOW!!!!!!!!!!! This is impressive!!!!!!!!!

  14. § kyle on January 22nd, 2006 at 4:16 pm

    where can i get flash thanks

  15. § Adolfo on March 6th, 2006 at 9:47 pm

    I like animating in flash but i dont have too much talent drawing i would like if you give me some tips. Would you?

  16. § Frederic on April 26th, 2006 at 3:23 pm

    Very talented ??Thanks for sharing.

  17. § Muralidhar, India on June 25th, 2006 at 5:38 pm

    Really very nice work. I got some tips from your drawing, especially lips, ear, glasses and shading. Waiting for some more tutorials.

  18. § Carlos on July 4th, 2006 at 1:52 pm

    Where can i get flash??
    Please i need it, it?s impressive

  19. § fiona on February 5th, 2007 at 6:57 am

    I really enjoyed the demo! It is very cool. To say the truth, i really don’t know there is such way of drawing over sketches! Can you teach me as i’m interested in learning to draw cartoon characters.

  20. § Wirchanowicz on May 1st, 2007 at 6:47 am

    Just WOW :-)

  21. § Kamran on May 5th, 2007 at 9:05 pm

    I tried your technique but Iwhen I try to paint it nothing comes? I don’t know what the problem is, any help please?

  22. § mike on May 17th, 2007 at 7:30 pm

    can you go more into detail on how u do your highlighting and getting rid of the extra lines…

    thanks

  23. § james@car contract hire on December 11th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

    That was really good, bit to techy for me but i enjoyed the video

  24. § Bobby Gill on February 11th, 2009 at 7:26 pm

    Wow that was great. You make it look easy putting together these amazing drawings of yours!

    Bobby

  25. § Rachael Geller on May 13th, 2009 at 12:31 pm

    Wow! that’s a great tutorial. I’ll definitely try it out.

  26. § Shaz@Flash Tutorials on June 2nd, 2009 at 6:26 pm

    Really good tutorial you explained your steps very well for beginners. I also started my illustrations in Flash to even though illustrator was an option i never really got into it as Flash had every vector manipulation i required

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