This inspiring book provides a detailed guide to drawing, painting and manipulating your own digital cartoons. It is packed full with professional advice, fantastic examples and practical step-by-step techniques showing how to create amazing characters and worlds. The book begins by introducing the essential equipment and types of computer software needed. A useful guide to digitaltechniques follows, which explains how to develop a scanned image, how to combine different media, add speech bubbles and much more. The main section features a range of projects for practising the techniques, and producing a variety of cartoon styles.