One of my regular clients is a toy company called DecoPac. Among other things they create many of the fancy birthday cakes you see in the grocery store bakeries. They often develop fun themes using licensed characters to tie in with movie and TV franchises. On occasion they will hire me to develop toy concepts for some of the cakes....
I was digging through some old artwork and found some alien concept sketches I did way back in 2006. These were some "villain" designs from an educational project for kids that was to take place in outer space. As far as I know things never went much further than this before the project came to a stand still, for reasons...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCDxaiYZXaU&sns=em] Artist Stephen Silver has put together an amazing new video that cartoonists are going to love. "The Masters Series, Vol. 1" includes lengthy interviews with three living legends: Mort Drucker (MAD Magazine), Stan Goldberg (Archie Comics), and John Reiner (The Lockhorns). Over the course of 2 hours and 15 minutes we get to see each artist hard at work in...
Earlier today I submitted my blog for publishing on the Amazon Kindle. The blog should be reviewed and approved by Amazon.com within 48-72 hours. has been approved! Kindle users can now subscribe to my blog and read it on the go. I'm not a Kindle user (yet) but my understanding is that Amazon.com charges a small fee for users to...
[caption id="attachment_2031" align="aligncenter" width="468" caption="Artwork copyright © Cedric Hohnstadt Illustration. All rights reserved."][/caption] Here's another Christmas illustration I've been working on as part of a self-promotion campaign. It's really fun to be able to noodle something up just for me without any restrictions based on client's needs. One of my all-time favorite stories is Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Recently I've been getting...
This afternoon I finished up my 2009 Christmas card. The files have been uploaded and I should have them back from the printer later this week. Warm Christmas wishes to all you blog readers!...
