A friend just sent me a link to Artnatomy, a fascinating site using Flash technology to help artists study facial anatomy and expressions. It highlights the different face muscles and lets you push and pull them to see how they work to communicate emotion. This is way better than anything you might find in an "anatomy for artists" book. ...
It's time for a new "snail mail" campaign to promote my work. Here's a rough mock-up of a postcard idea (click the images for a larger version). I'm trying to market myself as a character designer, so I've collected 11 of my favorite designs from 2005 into a psudo-Brady Bunch format. This is going to be an...
I'm pretty pumped. Very soon iTunes will be offering some of the classic Disney shorts on iTunes. According to applelinks.com:"Classic animated shorts produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and featured on Buena Vista Home Entertainment's upcoming "Disney at the Academy Awards," including the 1933 Academy Award-winning "The Three Little Pigs" and the 1935 Academy Award-winning "The Tortoise and...
I sketched this from a photo in a magazine...
The last week has been super super busy, so a new blog post is long overdue. I'm absolutely swamped with projects and deadlines (last week I pulled an all-nighter working 32 hours straight!), but that's freelancing--feast or famine. I'm planning to post some more art soon, but in the mean time here's a great new blog I stumbled...
The last few weeks have been so crazy with Chirstmas stuff and freelance work that my sketchbook has been gathering dust. Tonight I was reading some excellent material by master artist Glen Vilppu and I was reminded again how important it is--crucial even--that I keep sketching, learning, and growing as an artist. The more I learn about drawing, the...
