Steve Lieber explains the differences and advantages to drawing comics digitally, from his own personal perspective.
Steve Lieber
Dilettante 026: The Importance of Sketchbooks
Steve Lieber returns with a few of his friends to talk about the importance of keeping a sketchbook for yourself.
Dilettante 025: New Year's Resolutions for a Comics Artist
Steve Lieber lists his New Year's resolutions as an artist ... and it's all stuff YOU can do, too!
Dilettante 024: Tips on Mentoring
Steve Lieber offers advice on an important part of the journey of any artist's career: mentoring.
Dilettante 023: Influences
Steve Lieber talks about the artists who have most influenced his own work as a comics artist in this month's edition of Dilettante.
Dilettante 022: Starting a New Project with a Collaborator
For many artists and writers, starting a new project can be the most exciting--and daunting--experience of comics creation. Steve Lieber offers some tips on what to consider when undertaking a new comics series.
Dilettante 021: Ten Ways to Add Life to a Page
Artist Steve Lieber returns with advice to artists on how to liven up a "dead" comics page.
Dilettante 020: The Art of Self-Promotion
You've drawn the book, but the work isn't done. Steve Lieber talks about how you can successfully promote your work online and at conventions.
Dilettante 019: What Makes an Artist Say Yes to a Script?
Steve Lieber explores how a pitch or a script can influence an artist to collaborate with a writer.
Dilettante 018: Make No Mistake
Steve Lieber's last Toucan post generated a lot of feedback from his fellow comics creators. Here's some more great advice for creative people on how to avoid career and business mistakes.
Dilettante 017: Mistakes Were Made
Steve Lieber offers some solid advice for artists on how to recognize your mistakes and deal with them.
Dilettante 016: From One Artist to Another: Convention Advice
Steve Lieber returns with great advice to any artist setting up at any convention ... it's that time of year again!
Dilettante 015: Analyzing Eisner
Artist Steve Lieber examines a Spirit strip by Will Eisner, and reverse-engineers the master artist's storytelling choices.
Dilettante 014: Building the Low-budget World
Artist Steve Lieber talks about how to tell stories that feel like the way they were told is the only way they could be told.
Dilettante 013: On Giving a Good Critique
Steve Lieber starts the New Year with a post on how to give a good critique to an artist.
Dilettante 012: A Tale of One Wise Guy by One Wiseman
Steve Lieber uses one of his favorite holiday stories to reveal a not-so-hidden lesson in storytelling.
Dilettante 011: Thinking About Style
Steve Lieber returns with some advice on how to develop your own style as an artist.
Dilettante 010: A Cartoonist's Library
Artist Steve Lieber returns with some helpful hints on building the perfect instructional library for cartoonists and comic book artists.
Dilettante 009: Forming A Studio
Steve Lieber talks about forming an artists' studio and the advantages of working together.
Dilettante 008: Reading a Script
Artist Steve Lieber offers tips on how comic artists should approach and read each new script that they get.
Dilettante 007: Navigating Artists' Alley
Steve Lieber returns with sound advice on the ettiquette involved in visiting Artists' Alley or any convention.
Dilettante 006: Convention Season
Steve Lieber talks about that most wonderful time of the year . . . comic convention season!
Dilettante 005: Writing for an Artist
Artist Steve Lieber talks about how writers can better deal with their artist collaborators, including debunking the old myth: "Comics have an unlimited budget."
Dilettante 004: Using Photo Reference
Artist Steve Lieber explains how to use photo reference to improve and energize your work.
Dilettante 003: Showing Your Portfolio at Conventions
Artist and Toucan blogger Steve Lieber offers some candid tips about getting your portfolio ready to show at conventions, including WonderCon Anaheim, March 29-31 at the Anaheim Convention Center.