Recommendations needed for cartooning tools for student

My son who is in high school has been enamored with creating cartoons for the past year. He prefers ink and paint and the traditional look of political cartoons. There is a type of shading that he has been trying to achieve that involves the use of diagonal lines or cross hatching with the regular hand inked lines. It is very tedious to do this by hand.

Dan Serra …

My son who is in high school has been enamored with creating cartoons for the past year. He prefers ink and paint and the traditional look of political cartoons. There is a type of shading that he has been trying to achieve that involves the use of diagonal lines or cross hatching with the regular hand inked lines. It is very tedious to do this by hand.

At the risk of offending, I’d just like to cast a vote for the "tedious" method.

Cross-hatching, when done correctly, is not a uniform series of diagonal lines. The artist alters the distance between the lines and the thickness of the lines to show the varying shades of "gray".
Even if you did something like create a custom cross-hatch layer underneath the original art, and used a tool to make selected areas more or less visible, it wouldn’t look right, because the nature of cross-hatching is all about the subtlety of the penstrokes.
Dennis

My son who is in high school has been enamored with creating cartoons for the past year. He prefers ink and paint and the traditional look of political cartoons. There is a type of shading that he has been trying to achieve that involves the use of diagonal lines or cross hatching with the regular hand inked lines. It is very tedious to do this by hand.

His art teacher told him that in the "good old days" they used a special board called duo-shade where you would paint a chemical onto the board and the diagonal texture would flow from the brush as it developed. He thought that there might be software out there that might be safer than the chemicals and less messy. He wasn’t sure if they still made this board anymore.

He thought that either Photoshop, Illustrator or Freehand might be able to create this flowing diagonal texture (or pattern) but he wasn’t an expert in any of these and neither am I. It’s too expensive to buy the wrong one and make a mistake so I would appreciate any recommendations you pro’s might have.

*My son who is in high school has been enamored with creatin cartoons
for the past year. He prefers ink and paint and the traditional loo of
political cartoons. There is a type of shading that he has bee trying
to achieve that involves the use of diagonal lines or cross hatching with the regular hand inked lines. It is very tedious to do this by hand.

His art teacher told him that in the "good old days" they used special
board called duo-shade where you would paint a chemical onto th board
and the diagonal texture would flow from the brush as it developed. He
thought that there might be software out there that might be safe than
the chemicals and less messy. He wasn’t sure if they still mad this
board anymore.

He thought that either Photoshop, Illustrator or Freehand might b able
to create this flowing diagonal texture (or pattern) but he wasn’ an
expert in any of these and neither am I. It’s too expensive to bu the
wrong one and make a mistake so I would appreciate an
recommendations
you pro’s might have.

Thanks in advance

Daniel

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