Copyright © Cedric Hohnstadt. All rights reserved. I would have posted this on Friday but I wanted Ask Mr. Artist Guy to be front-and-center all weekend. A big "thank you" to everyone who's submitted questions so far. Illustration Friday is a fun website for artists. Each week a topic is posted, and any artist who wants to (regardless of skill level)...
Announcing a new feature coming to Cedric's Blog-O-Rama!: "Ask Mr. Artist Guy" I love writing this blog, but sometimes it's a challenge to come up with fresh and interesting topics to write about five times a week, every week, all year. My friend and fellow illustrator/blogger Tom Richmond actually blogs more frequently than I do (I don't know how he does...
Here's an old blog post from 2005. My blog audience has grown since then so I thought it was worth re-posting: (Sketches by Pixar artist Tom Gately) Walt Stanchfield started as a Disney clean-up artist in the 60's, and by the 1990's he had become one of Disney's premiere drawing instructors. Now, thanks to the folks at Animation Meat you can download...
Hey kids! Today's phrase is "Spec work". In the creative industries (advertising, publishing, film making, etc.) doing a project "on spec" means "work done on speculation", in other words doing work for free in the hopes that you'll get paid later once the project "takes off". Young artists just starting out are especially vulnerable to such projects, but even after ten...
I do all my artwork from start to finish in Photoshop. It's a very powerful program and overall I enjoy using it. But I've never been thrilled with Photoshop's brushes. There's nothing in Photoshop that does a good job simulating the look and feel of a real-world graphite pencil. Painter and Sketchbook Pro are have pretty good pencil brushes, but I'm...
