Author: Cedric

02 Nov

Posted at 00:00h in Art & Business, Uncategorized
I've added three magazines to my Recommended Resources link at Amazon.com. ca.jpg Communication Arts is a quality art magazine for creatives. It's an expensive magazine printed on thick glossy paper, but it has a lot of good content. Several issues are themed around "annuals" (Design Annual, Illustration Annual, Photography Annual, etc.) which means that a big chunk of those issues contains the latest and greatest work being done in that media (at least, as judged by the editors). Lots of good content in the articles too.

01 Nov

Posted at 00:00h in Uncategorized
leopard.jpg Before getting into today's post, I want to thank the guys over at Drawn! for graciously writing a little blurb about my Schoolism.com posts on October 20. That day I got a lot of visitors to this site--over 3,700--and the following day my blog made #61 in the top 100 WordPress blogs for that day. Muchos Gracias, guys! And thanks to all you new readers who've been sticking around since. -------- Yesterday my copy of Leopard, Apple's new operating system, arrived in the mail. (I ordered from Amazon.com and saved a few bucks. Their single-user version is $20 cheaper than Apple's retail price and the family-license version is $10 cheaper. Plus free shipping.) After reading thoughts about the upgrade from the talented and prolific Tom Richmond, I thought I'd post my own experiences. Upgrading your entire operating system is always a big project, and there are bound to be a few glitches. Most glitches are usually ironed out within a few months of the software's release, but early adapters take the brunt of it. Since Leopard is only a few days old I knew I'd run into some bugs, but I never expected to run into as many problems as I did.

31 Oct

Posted at 00:00h in Illustration
balloo08.jpg I recently purchased the special edition DVD of Disney's Jungle Book. It is widely regarded as one of the all-time classics of animation. Not because of the story. The plot is so simple that the movie should be a total bore. The movie is revered because of the characters. They are so incredibly entertaining and delightful to watch that you can't help but get caught up in the fun. That is no small feat.

30 Oct

Posted at 00:00h in Uncategorized

At the moment I'm under the pile with five freelance projects. I'm doing turnarounds and mouth charts for an upcoming episode of 3-2-1 Penguins!, I'm creating some spot illustrations for a website, I'm designing a character for a popular food product (can't say what yet), I'm illustrating some Spanish curriculum, and I'm getting started on a set of Bible flashcards....

29 Oct

Posted at 00:00h in Art & Business
webinars.jpg 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.

26 Oct

Posted at 00:00h in Illustration

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...