(NOTE: There will be not blog post tomorrow. I'll be spending the holiday with family and trying to catch up on some much needed sleep.) This sketch was done a year or two ago when my friends at DrawerGeeks decided we should each do an emergency turkey drawing. Draw a turkey–fast! Quick sketches only, no more than a few minutes. No...
I'm a huge Apple fan. I love their products. I drink the Kool-Aid. I sometimes wander in to the Apple store just so I can drool.
But lately the effects of the Kool-Aid are starting to wear off.
My biggest beef is with Leopard, Apple's new operating system. Leopard's new features promised to bring a new level of productivity and flexibility to my computer experience. I'm a sucker for anything that saves time or makes me more productive, so I upgraded to Leopard almost immediately. I should have known better. Apple has a nasty habit of releasing operating systems before they are truly ready. I knew the upgrade would be klunky at first and I was prepared to encounter a few annoying bugs. I never expected this much disappointment.
Fanboy Radio is a weekly radio show/podcast devoted to comic books. I don't really read comic books anymore, but the industry has some amazing artists whose work I enjoy following. Fanboy Radio interviews a lot of them, and it can be inspirational to hear the various creators talk about the industry and their work. A few months ago Fanboy Radio did...
My friend and fellow illustrator Paul Fricke recently sent me a great link: Advice for building a career as a freelance artist and/or paid cartoonist by Dave Roman Dave Roman has been working at Nickelodeon Magazine for the last nine years. He is also a frequent lecturer at the School of Visual Arts. This article summarizes his advice for art students just...
I finally received my copy of the Pizza Math game with the packaging that I illustrated. It's actually a clever concept: It's similar to a deck of cards, but instead of rectangles the cards are shaped like triangle pizza slices and instead of suits you have a variety of pizza toppings (i.e. diamonds become pepporoni's, clubs become sausages bits, etc.)....
To warm up each morning I've been trying to fill a page a day in my sketchbook. However, I've been so swamped with freelance work that I've only been averaging about a page a week. Better than nothing, I guess. Here's a few heads I drew the other day from some old photos....
