I love it when cartoonists share their process tips and tricks—and when it’s a cartoonist I especially admire, well, that’s just gold.

Here’s John Allison on how he turns pencil drawings into the kind of crisp black-and-white art he can color easily in Photoshop, in five simple steps. As he acknowledges, this isn’t perfect—”fine details will suffer somewhat”—but with a little tweaking, it’s a big step forward.

Posted via email from Rob Cottingham’s posterous

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