HOW Magazine is a leading publication in the art and graphics community. If you don't subscribe, you should. There are a ton of great articles on both the creative and business aspects of being a commercial artist.
Recently HOW started offering a series of online "webinars". (A webinar is a seminar broadcast over the web.) These webinars are designed to help creative types improve their business skills so they can land more jobs and grow more successful.
This is an illustration I completed earlier this year for Trend Enterprises. They wanted a pizza chef to use on the packaging of an educational board game. The game uses pizza slices to teaches kids about fractions. The game is now being sold in Target stores. I'm told it's in the learning products section, kinda between magazines and books, next to...
Here's a re-post from way back when my blog was only a couple of months old. (Turtle artwork by Guy Francis) Like a lot of artists, I get challenged and inspired by drooling over the work of other artists (like the ones listed to the right, for example). One of the best ways for me to keep that inspiration going...
My mind wanders when I'm driving. A lot. One of the worst times to get a bright idea or remember to make a note about something is in the car. Taking my hands off the wheel to scribble a note on the back of a receipt is probably not the smartest thing in the world (although some of you have...
Recently I posted links to several blog articles on character design written by the talented, prolific, and opinionated John K. Here's a few more good ones from his blog. Set aside some time to read these, his posts are always meaty: Bill Tytla - Terrytoons - cute animation, is it such a bad thing to have appeal? Appeal 1-starting with cuteness as...
As I mentioned in Friday’s post, I’ve spent the last few months designing characters and props for the TV series 3-2-1 Penguins! which airs Saturday mornings on NBC. Last weekend the first episode I actually worked on (”Green-Eyed Monster”) was broadcast. My name was in the credits, which means that for two seconds on Saturday I was ignored by millions...
