If you missed the 2008 Creative Freelancer Conference in Chicago, you missed some terrific info about how to manage your freelance career and build your business. Have no fear. You can now purchase and download the audio and materials from all the presentations, whether you attended the conference or not. You'll get MP3 audio recordings, session handouts, and each speaker's PowerPoint...
Sad news. It appears that VeggieTales may soon be no more. Big Idea, the studio that fifteen years ago gave us Larry the Cucumber and Bob the Tomato, has recently laid off most of its staff and announced that the company's owners are facing bankruptcy. Details are posted at Phil Vischer's blog. This isn't the first time Bob and Larry have seen...
Here's a few YouTube videos I've stumbled upon recently from some artists whose work I admire: Dennis Jones is a phenominal illustrator. He draws very fun, entertaining cartoon characters and then paints them with a master's eye for color and shading. Here's a quick demo of him painting in Photoshop. View Dennis' YouTube channel for more videos: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAePfwfCYbc] Here the very talented Denis...
Freelance work has slowed down this week due to the upcoming Thanksgiving weekend. With Wednesday and Friday being travel days it becomes essentially a five-day weekend for a lot of my clients. Deadlines get pushed back accordingly. I've been using the lull in my schedule to tackle a mountain of paperwork and emails that have piled up while I was...
Recently I was hired by Snert Studios to design a wacky rooster character for a Flash-based children's website they are developing. The site is still under construction but the client has given me permission to post my work on the project. I wanted to push the designs in a more stylized direction than normal so I started playing around with various...
I recently ordered a copy of Kyle Baker's new book How To Draw Stupid and Other Essentials of Cartooning (Amazon.com link). For those of you who aren't familiar with Baker's work, he's a prolific cartoonist with a background in comic books and animation. His work has appeared in numerous publications including BusinessWeek, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, MAD Magazine,...
