Each cartoon starts with a concept. My ideas come from observing the human (and animal) condition. I live in a house with two cats whose antics provide me with countless ideas. Sometimes the ideas accumulate to the point that I feel like my head is going to explode. This would not be a pleasant sight, so when that happens, I sit down at my drawing board and do lots of rough sketches trying to capture the essence of the ideas in pencil form. I will then scan these rough pencil sketches into my computer and using Adobe photoshop, I will clean up the lines and eliminate any tone that is present in the drawing, reducing it to a bitmap image. The image is then transferred to Adobe Streamline, which is a software program that converts bitmap images into vector images, and I will "vector" the line image and save it as a new file which is then imported into Adobe Illustrator to be colored. Illustrator is a vector program that produces clean stylized images with crisp sharp colors and low file sizes. When the image is finished, I will import it back into Photoshop, and create a Jpeg file which is then place on this web site for anyone on the planet to see. It sounds complex, but is really fairly simple.