Tom Bancroft is not only talented and versatile (animator, director, character designer, illustrator, and comic book artist), he's also about the nicest guy around. He's currently finishing up a fantastic "how-to" book on character design. Creating Characters with Personality won't be published for a couple of months yet, but Tom recently showed me a preview chapter and it...
(EDIT: I'm having problems with the images in this post. My apologies if they don't load.) Since I'm getting married Oct. 8, some friends of mine decided to throw me a surprise bachelor party. We've had a long-standing tradition of keeping it clean and fun while embarrassing the groom-to-be as much as possible. I'm the last one in the group...
I'm currently working on a project designing a skateboarding cow for a dairy producer. It's still being refined but this is my favorite sketch so far. It has to be two-color (black and blue). The client thinks the cow looks too old--I can see that--and they don't like the pose. So back to the drawing board....
I can't say what these are for yet, but I've been hired to design some characters for an upcoming project. Here's two of them: A rapping duck and a German apple strudel. (Now I've got you curious, don't I?)...
Ah, the memories these bring back...
Things are pretty hectic right now, but I'm committed to keeping this blog going. So I'll just take a moment and mention a few websites that have been really helpful to me in promoting my work and getting clients. Maybe they'll be helpful to someone else who reads this.First, two websites where you can showcase your work to art...
