02 Nov The Fish-Man Thing
Today's warm up sketch is a little on the odd side, but was a lot of fun to draw. It was inspired by a thread over at The Drawing Board. Maybe I just needed to get that last bit of Halloween weirdness out of my system....
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01 Nov Portfolio Update
Later this week I'm going in to meet with some local art directors, and they've asked me to bring in my portfolio. I promote myself so much over the internet nowadays that my leather portfolio is starting to collect dust. It's badly in need of an update. So this morning I started sorting through all the fun projects...
27 Oct Spline Doctors
A few artists at Pixar have banded together and started a blog, Spline Doctors. Besides working at Pixar, the six artists involved (Scott Clark, Andrew Gordon, Stephen Gregory, Angus MacLane, Billy Merritt, and Mike Venturini) also teach at the Academy of Art. You just know this blog is gonna be good!...
27 Oct Go Fish
These days lots of websites are being jazzed up with interactive Flash-based games. I've been hired to do a concept sketch for a simple fishing game idea. Hopefully a large, well-known company will use the game on their sales team website (at least, I think it's for the sales team). It's a very simple game--pick a fishing...
26 Oct Free Drawing Lessons
Artwork by Pixar artist Tom GatelyWalt 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 51 different notes and handouts from Stanchfield's classes. Though they are geared more for the advanced artist than...
24 Oct Cool optical illusion project
I'm working with a client on designing a table-top dispenser for Christian tracts. It's a neat optical illusion based on this design (click to watch a short video of the illusion in action). It's really amazing. The head appears to turn and follow you as you walk past it. You can read more about it here.These...