A book I illustrated earlier this year has just been published. Day of the Field Trip Zombies was a project I did for Stone Arch Books. It's a 32-page graphic novel designed to help elementary-aged boys improve their reading skills. It's got everything a boy could want: action, humor, and zombie penguins! I've illustrated seven children's books, but until now the...
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I love being self-employed. Freelancing has worked out for me (going on eleven years now), and I'm extremely grateful. I wish the same success and happiness to anyone else preparing to venture out on their own. However, it isn't always a bed of roses. If you are considering a career in freelance, the last thing you want to do is go...
One of my all-time favorite living illustrators is Dennis Jones. His work is phenomenal. His characters are cartoony and fun, his drawing skills are solid, and he is a skilled painter who knows what he is doing with color. He balances fine-art painting techniques with appealing cartoon doodles for a stunning effect. Jones already has a website/blog (which he shares with...
As mentioned before, I'm taking a character design class online from Stephen Silver over at schoolism.com. It's great curriculum and I'm learning a lot. This week's lesson was on clean-up and inking. Our assignment was to choose one design from our "Jeckyll and Hyde" work and ink it up. Inking is not my strong point, especially digital inking on the...
Hollywood and Evangelicals go together like oil and water. Love and war. Pizza and Orange Juice. Or so you would think. It's a fair assumption. Movies and TV shows (along with the culture in general) seem to be growing more coarse and irreverent. Many evangelicals percieve this as Hollywood launching an attack on the moral foundations of the culture. Hollywood, in turn,...
