Dean Yeagle
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JF: How did you get involved with drawing Playboy cartoons?
DY: Some time ago Playboy sent around a poster to animation companies all over the country because they were having a contest on their website for a little piece of animation that they would use on their site. And there was a cash prize for the winner. Of course animation is very time-consuming and I’m a one-man company now, so instead I did a couple cartoons like the ones they use in the magazine, and sure enough I got a call from the cartoon editor and she actually said, “where have you been?” And I‘ve been working for them ever since. By then I’d been working on the computer and coloring in Photoshop. The computer has opened new worlds as well.
Image courtesy of Dean Yeagle
DY: All I can say is practice. I never read the Photoshop book, but you learn a few tricks that serve you well: ways of doing rendering on a character using a couple of filters, and the rest is painting. You can adjust the color and undo as many times as you want, and that’s priceless.
JF: What’s the hardest part about your job today?