Author: Cedric

Check out the Temple of the Seven Camels, a great new art blog by Mark Kennedy, a 16-year veteran of Disney animation. Rather than post his own work, his blog is about education—sharing his knowledge of art and story principles as they relate to cartooning and animation. It's definitely a blog I'll be visiting often!...

Recently I was called in by Minneapolis station KSTP-5 to sketch for another murder trial. Ronald Reed, a former Black Panther, was finally convicted of killing a Minneapolis police officer, a crime he committed 30 years ago. I'm never really satisfied with my courtroom sketches because I have to bang them out so fast (these were all done in one day)....

Stan Shaw has posted a terrific article on his blog called The Rules of Art Direction. It's a collection of interviews with art directors on the do's and don'ts of working with illustrators. This is a terrific insight into the minds of art directors. A fantastic resource and a definite must-read for any one who does freelance...

The new MacBook Pro is Apple's first laptop with their new Intel chip, which will make it the fastest Apple laptop ever by far. Unfortunately the current version of Photoshop is not configured to run on the Intel chip, so until the next version comes out Photoshop will actually run slower on the MacBook Pro. Having a good laptop...