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...
I do all my artwork from start to finish in Photoshop. It's a very powerful program and overall I enjoy using it. But I've never been thrilled with Photoshop's brushes. There's nothing in Photoshop that does a good job simulating the look and feel of a real-world graphite pencil. Painter and Sketchbook Pro are have pretty good pencil brushes, but I'm...
Some freelance projects have tight deadlines. Others move at a slower pace. Way back in Spring of 2005 I was contacted by a publisher to illustrate a series of children's books designed to help kids understand various Christian concepts. Since there was no real rush our understanding was that I could set it aside to work on other more urgent projects...
