To any art directors/art buyers out there: As a freelancer I'm always looking for new clients and fresh projects. So this blog is as good a place as any to announce that a new, updated PDF version of my character design and illustration portfolio is available online. You can download it for free here or on my website. Feel free...
Warning: This post is way off-topic. Please indulge me. I just finished listening to today's Focus on the Family radio broadcast. The broadcast is an interview with a man named Bill Kennedy who is currently serving a twenty-year prison sentence for white collar crimes. The problem is, a few years ago new proof surfaced to prove his innocence and so far...
Copyright © Cedric Hohnstadt. All rights reserved. I would have posted this on Friday but I wanted Ask Mr. Artist Guy to be front-and-center all weekend. A big "thank you" to everyone who's submitted questions so far. Illustration Friday is a fun website for artists. Each week a topic is posted, and any artist who wants to (regardless of skill level)...
Announcing a new feature coming to Cedric's Blog-O-Rama!: "Ask Mr. Artist Guy" I love writing this blog, but sometimes it's a challenge to come up with fresh and interesting topics to write about five times a week, every week, all year. My friend and fellow illustrator/blogger Tom Richmond actually blogs more frequently than I do (I don't know how he does...
Here's an old blog post from 2005. My blog audience has grown since then so I thought it was worth re-posting: (Sketches by Pixar artist Tom Gately) Walt Stanchfield started as a Disney clean-up artist in the 60's, and by the 1990's he had become one of Disney's premiere drawing instructors. Now, thanks to the folks at Animation Meat you can download...
Hey kids! Today's phrase is "Spec work". In the creative industries (advertising, publishing, film making, etc.) doing a project "on spec" means "work done on speculation", in other words doing work for free in the hopes that you'll get paid later once the project "takes off". Young artists just starting out are especially vulnerable to such projects, but even after ten...
