I just found this neat link from the blog over at Seward Street. Need a creative kick? Check out CreativeThink.com. It's full of short little insights on creativity that challenge your thinking, and the best part is they only take a few seconds to read. Just click the "Creative Whack" button to read another, and...
I love sketching and try and take a sketchbook with me wherever I go, always striving to improve my drawing skills. It's true what they say, there aren't any shortcuts to artistic excellence. There's only one long, winding road called Practice. Every time I start thinking I've "arrived" as an artist, I look at the work of...
Today was full of distractions. Important distractions, but distractions nonetheless. To give you an idea, earlier I recorded a two-hour special of "Inside the Actor's Studio" on Bravo. At 8am this morning I started playing it in the background as I worked. Each time I got interrupted or had to step out, I put it on...
I've been super busy lately, but I'm determined to keep this blog regularly updated. For about a year now I've been subscribing to two great art magazines, Draw! and Sketch. I highly recommend both of these magazines for any artist interested in comics or animation. Both contain a lot of interviews and tutorials, and the subscription price...
The Mall of America has a neat place called Underwater World, where you can actually walk through an underground glass tunnel and watch sharks and other exotic fish swim right over your head. Recently they hired me to illustrate their mascot "Sharky" as an explorer, ala Indiana Jones. Since I live in the area, I was able to...
After over two weeks of non-stop craziness, I finally had a day off. Most of it was spent sorting through all our junk to get ready for a garage sale. It's amazing how much "stuff" we Americans accumulate. As I stood there staring at my garage full of clutter, I was reminded of the words of Jesus,...
