No, I'm not quoting Anthony Robbins. This is the title of a great little article I just read on CreativePro.com. If you make any income doing freelance artwork, this is a must-read. It begins:"Starting a business is easy. Sustaining it is hard. Here's what successful creative professionals say about what makes them stay successful."Click here to read more....
I recently completed illustrating some Sunday School curriculum for a publisher. Here's a few of several misc. characters I illustrated for the project. I've pulled them out and plopped them in front of a background as a fun way to display them....
I'm seriously considering the purchase of a Cintiq. For those who don't know, the Cintiq is a large, sophisticated computer monitor that lets you draw directly on the screen with a special pressure-sensitive pen. For artists working in the digital age, it's a very impressive tool. The Cintiq's I saw on display at Comic-Con were basically covered with drool.A Cintiq...
How did I miss this? Mike Kunkel, creator of "Herobear and the Kid", has an art blog. Cool!...
I don't do warm-up sketches nearly as often as I should. Here's a few from some coffee table books that I picked up really cheap at a thrift store (mostly LIFE magazine photos, I think). I'm experimenting with using a chamois and a soft-lead pencil, so far with very mediocre results. Guess that means I need to keep doing more....
I just finished watching a DVD documentary called "Dream On Silly Dreamer". It's a fascinating collection of interviews with former Disney artists chronicling the rise and fall of 2-D animation from the 1980's to the present. I've always had a fantasy of moving to LA and working for a big animation studio, so I was riveted by the testimonials and...
