Lately I've been blessed with gobs of freelance work, but one of the downsides is that I'm so busy cranking out work for clients that my sketchbook has been gathering dust. Not a good thing. A sketchbook is an important part of any artist's development, no matter how busy or successful he/she gets. The sketchbook is the one place where you can...
I wanted to take a minute to plug a fellow Twin Cities illustrator, Pete Krause. He's been doing concept art, storyboards, and comic books for years and his work is excellent. His website just got a face lift, and it looks very nice. Take a peek: www.peterkrauseillustration.com [EDIT: Broken link has been fixed.] My own website is badly in need of a...
Last year I had the privilege of working as a character designer for 3-2-1 Penguins!, a Saturday morning animated series currently airing on NBC. Penguins began it's life on VHS back in the 1990's with several episodes being produced by Big Idea (the company that gave us VeggieTales). Last year NBC warmed up to the property and ordered an entire...
My head is still swimming with all the information I tried to soak in last week at the 2008 Creative Freelancer Conference in Chicago. Fortunately it has been officially announced that MP3 audio recordings of all of the seminars will be available for purchase soon, likely sometime in the next few weeks. I'll post a link as soon as they...
The first annual Creative Freelancer Conference is now history. The speakers were terrific, the seminars were loaded with great info, and it was refreshing to spend three days surrounded by other people who understand the excitement and struggles of freelancing. I came home with my head swimming with ideas on how to take my freelance career to the next level. I've...
Sorry for the lag in posts lately. Last week I was on vacation with my family, and this week I'm in Chicago for a client meeting followed by the first annual Creative Freelancer Conference. The conference starts this afternoon, and I'm very excited about it. I'm looking forward to meeting lots of other creatives, doing a little networking, and soaking...
