Another long night. Deadlines have been crazy. I haven't had a day off in over two weeks and I'm currently going on about 4 hours of sleep. One more deadline tomorrow and I can crash. Freelancing can be stressful, but I love my job and can't imagine doing anything else. I'm fortunate in that I'm actually...
I've just moved my blog from it's old host to here at blogger.com. I liked where it was but I couldn't do RSS feeds. Everything's been moved except user comments from my previous posts. But you can still read them if you'd like at my old blog. Sorry for any inconvenience, and thanks for following my...
Newspaper syndicates may soon be a thing of the past.Cartoonist Scott Kurtz has one of the most successful comic strips on the web. PVP is a smartly-written strip about the publishers of a gaming magazine. Scott gets about a jillion hits a month to his site, and his popular strip has recently expanded into print (through Image comics), t-shirts,...
My warm-up sketch today was for a cowboy thread on The Drawing Board. For the color I experimented with some Photshop brushes. I really want to get a better grasp of what Photoshop can do....
This has been around for a while, but it's still a great link. In October 2002 California State Polytechnic University Pomona filmed a presentation by Disney character design supervisor Chen Yi Chang (Batman, Mulan, Tarzan). For over two hours Chang gives a multimedia discusssion covering the basics of good character design and technique. Then he reviewed student's work...
I've been working on a project illustrating Bible stories in a comic book format. Last night I went to the comic book store for inspiration, and found some great stuff! Most notably "Kyle Baker: Cartoonist" (Vol. 2) and a few comics by the legendary John Byrne.I got home just in time for a thuderstorm to blow through and...
