Sometimes I wonder how I stumble upon such things. In this case, it was five steps:
- Three of my feeds blogged about a site called Wordie. Critical mass was reached, so I checked it out.
- On my Wordie profile page, it ask for an “onomatopoeia that best describes you.” I picked Bam.
- Wanting to know more about onomatopoeia’s, I Google’d it and click on the Wikipedia entry.
- At the bottom of wiki article, under the “External Links” section, was page for “Tutorial on Drawing Onomatopoeia (Sound Effects) in Cartoons“.
- The tutorial site listed “a free sound effect font named “Badaboom,” available for free from Blambot.”
Here’s the cool cartoon sound effect I made:
Here’s the cool cartoon font site with lots of free fonts:
http://www.blambot.com/