I'm still trying to dig out from under a mountain of work, so here's just a couple brief notes of interest: Play Election Lingo! If you are planning to watch the Vice Presidential debate tonight, have a little fun with this bingo-like game from illustrator Bob Staake. There's also a Presidential version for when the next debate rolls around. FallCon is this...
Sorry for the lag in blog posts. Besides a busy freelance schedule I took a four-day trip to Missouri for "Toonfest", and now I'm on my fourth straight day of being knocked flat by a bad flu bug. I can't remember being this sick in quite a while. Yesterday my temp boiled up to 103 at which point I started...
Thanks to everyone who posted comments about Twitter. They were very helpful. I've been playing around with Twitter a bit more and I'm really starting to like it. If you use Twitter you can follow me at http://www.twitter.com/cedricstudio. I want to give a hearty "Congrats!" to two friends of mine, both fellow Minneapolis artists. Sherwin Schwartzrock recently submitted several of samples...
Lately I've been hearing a lot of buzz about Twitter, the popular "social networking" tool that allows you to write brief one- or two-sentence updates about your life (called "tweets") and then instantly broadcast them to your friends and colleagues. Some praise Twitter as a cutting-edge networking and marketing tool, while critics brush it off as a narcissistic time-waster. This...
Lately I've been blessed with gobs of freelance work, but one of the downsides is that I'm so busy cranking out work for clients that my sketchbook has been gathering dust. Not a good thing. A sketchbook is an important part of any artist's development, no matter how busy or successful he/she gets. The sketchbook is the one place where you can...
I wanted to take a minute to plug a fellow Twin Cities illustrator, Pete Krause. He's been doing concept art, storyboards, and comic books for years and his work is excellent. His website just got a face lift, and it looks very nice. Take a peek: www.peterkrauseillustration.com [EDIT: Broken link has been fixed.] My own website is badly in need of a...
