Author: Cedric

Illustrator Dani Jones has posted a great litlte tutorial with instructions on how to optimize your portfolio website for the iPhone. Her article really got me thinking. As more and more people are surfing the web with their smart phones, it seems innevitable that sooner or later a potential client is going to try viewing my website on a tiny...

It's been a while so I thought I'd post some noodles and doodles from my sketchbook. I don't have a scanner with me at the moment so I thought I'd try snapping pics of the sketches with my spanky new iPhone 3GS. The results aren't as good as a scanner would have done but after adjusting the levels in Photoshop...

When it rains it pours! For the last couple of weeks I've been juggling several client projects at various stages of completion. I've recently finished a marker comp, an illustration for a print ad, and some storyboards for a TV commercial pitch. I'm currently working on a toy design, packaging illustrations for three different clients, and character designs for two...

A mascot can be powerful. If you run a small business, work at an ad agency, or design product packaging, I would encourage you to think about the benefits of  having a mascot to represent the product or service you are selling. A while back I wrote a post summarizing some of the benefits a mascot brings. That post has recently...

"Mascot Contest 2" officially ended on Friday. A lot of people entered and most identified all the mascots correctly. Those who did were entered in the drawing. I put the entries on slips of paper and my two-year-old daughter picked one out of a baseball cap. The winner of the mascot contest is David Oldham. Congrats David! You'll receive a free...