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12 Aug

Posted at 00:24h in Pose Drawing Sparkbook

News about my Kickstarter the Pose Drawing Sparkbook continues to spread! More sites are featuring it including On Animation, Animator Island, ShowMeTheAnimation, ComicRelated, and even a concept art blog from Brazil. But the biggest news is that the Sparkbook is now on the pop culture blog BleedingCool.com. I wrote a short article for them called Attack of the Killer Word Balloons (Why Artists Should Study Silent Storytelling) and whipped up...

10 Aug

Posted at 15:06h in Pose Drawing Sparkbook

Special weekend stretch goal! If my Kickstarter, the Pose Drawing Sparkbook,  hits $10,000 by noon Monday (central time) I'll draw a silly cartoon for my backers (written without dialogue, of course). More info here: http://ow.ly/nOqBx...

07 Aug

Posted at 02:27h in Uncategorized

I wanted to take a break from my Kickstarter, the Pose Drawing Sparkbook, to highlight a few other goodies by some incredible artists. First, I just learned that amazing Florian Satzinger has a book out! How did I miss this? It's called Duck: Birds and Pencils and it's a collection of some of his wonderful cartoon bird drawings. I just ordered my...

06 Aug

Posted at 09:27h in Character Design, Illustration, Pose Drawing Sparkbook, Sketchbook (The Unfunny Stuff)

(This excerpt is from the Pose Drawing Sparkbook, a super-charged sketchbook designed to help you put more life and personality into your drawings. Think of it as acting exercises for your sketchbook.Read other snippets here and here.) Don't limit your acting to just the face and hands. The head makes up less than ten percent of a person's body. You've got another ninety percent of...

31 Jul

Posted at 02:40h in Character Design, Illustration, Pose Drawing Sparkbook, Sketchbook (The Unfunny Stuff)

(This excerpt is from the Pose Drawing Sparkbook, a super-charged sketchbook designed to help you put more life and personality into your drawings. Think of it as acting exercises for your sketchbook. Read other snippets here and here.) Action Reveals Character (Excerpt) Once you decide who each character is, you need to find ways to introduce them to the audience. Here are three common shortcuts you can...