A few months ago I was hired by Patch Products to illustrate two educational puzzles for preschoolers. One was a farm theme, the other a zoo theme. Each puzzle needed to incorporate several shapes into the artwork (indicated with thick black outlines). The original concept was to have the border of the puzzle take a shape that would match the theme....
I'm a big fan of Apple products and, like many digital artists, I see a lot of potential in the iPad. It's sleek, fun, stylish, practical, and best of all you can draw and paint with it. Quite a few digital artists have already posted work online that was created with the iPad and some of it is amazing. So...
Last night I made several updates to my website, www.cedricstudio.com. My website is over five years old now (which equals about fifty internet years) and badly needs a face lift to optimize it for the web 2.0 world. Until I can tackle that mammoth project I'm continuing to turn the crank on this trusty-rusty version. The latest changes include: Added a new...
A few tidbits from around the internet: Reference for Animators — A few good clips here. Open Letters - Thomas James has some thoughts on the general lack of business and freelance training in many art schools. He wrote an Open Letter To Art Schools Everywhere and followed it up with an Open Letter To Art Students Everywhere. Tribute to Milt Kahl -...
My last blog post was published to my RSS feed about a jillion times and then forwarded to my Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn accounts where it also published itself over and over. My apologies. I'm experimenting with a new way to manage all my accounts under one app (HootSuite.com) and apparently I've got some bugs to work out. I'll be publishing...
This past spring I was hired by ABC News out of New York to do courtroom sketching for a big trial they were covering here in Minneapolis. It's a fascinating story: In 1980 a young man named Ming Sen Shiue kidnapped his former teacher, Mary Stauffer, and her 8-year-old daughter Beth. A 6-year-old boy, Jason Wilkman, witnessed the kidnapping so Shiue...
