Recently I was hired by VeggieTales creator Phil Vischer to help develop some characters for a fun new project he is working on. I can't say much about it yet, but he has given me permission to post just a few of the dozens of concept sketches I did for the characters he's been developing. I can tell you one...
A few months ago I was hired by Crayola to create an illustration showing some of their marker characters interacting with the Empire State Building. The artwork was used as a coloring page on the back of some packaging. Unfortunately it is only being sold in one store, the Toys-R-Us in Times Square. New Yorkers have all the fun! ...
One of my clients is DecoPac, Inc., a novelty toy company that makes many of the cake toppers you see in bakeries and grocery stores. Most of their products are tied to licensed merchandise, and sometimes I get the fun of helping them develop a toy idea for a popular character. The challenge is to come up with something creative...
Yesterday I took a break from my busy work load to just play around in my sketchbook. I decided to use Stephen Silver's excellent Character Design Shuffle app (available for iOS and Android). Each time you use the app it picks from several random character traits (gender, occupation, type of animal, emotion, etc.) to build a character assignment for you...
My webinar "Bringing Your Drawings To Life" is now 1/2 off. The price has been slashed to just $10 for the full HD 90-minute download. Using principles from the Pose Drawing Sparkbook I tried to cram it full of tips to help you put more life and personality into your drawings. More info here, or watch these clips: [youtube_sc url=uWmqWcv9tKA width=450] [youtube_sc url=tJEbD1TQ3uo width=450] [wp_eStore_add_to_cart id=3] $20.00...
The new VeggieTales DVD "Celery Night Fever" (Amazon link) has just been released. It's a story about forgiveness with Bob and Larry playing 70's-era disco stars. I had the really fun job of coming up with costumes for Bob and Larry, both as young celebrities and as old modern-day grandparents: Here's a screen shot of the final animation: There's even a plush...
