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31 Jan

Posted at 23:18h in Art & Business
Recently I've started an email correspondence with a creative director who was laid off from a large agency. She's looking for some freelance work to keep the bills paid and is thinking about possibly launching out on her own full-time. With the economy continuing to flounder stories like hers are becoming more and more common. I sat down to type up a list of resources for her and decided it would make a pretty good blog post.

31 Jan

Posted at 22:08h in Uncategorized

Australian designer Jenica Smith publishes designmontage.com, a website which brings together an eclectic mix of creative goodies from all corners of the internet - design, illustration, photography, animation, and the like. She's just posted a short interview with me about my illustration work and career. I encourage all my blog readers to take a poke around the site. There's some...

30 Jan

Posted at 13:48h in Just for Fun

For several years I've enjoyed being a member of the National Cartoonists Society. Two or three times a year I travel across the Midwest to spend a couple of days hanging out with other members of my chapter. You can take this to the bank: Getting a few cartoonists together over drinks is never dull. One of our members is John...

22 Jan

Posted at 00:19h in Uncategorized

A picture really is worth a thousand words. Tonight I saw "The Artist", a feature film getting a lot of buzz. It just won three Golden Globe including best film (musical or comedy) and some say it deserves an Oscar for Best Picture. I wouldn't quite go that far but it is a very good film. What's makes "The Artist" especially remarkable...

16 Jan

Posted at 19:42h in Art Tech, Sketchbook (The Unfunny Stuff)

A few weeks ago I won a prize giveaway of Stephen Silver's new sketching app, Posebook. Today during my warm up I finally had a chance to give it a test run. For those who haven't heard, Posebook is a pair of new apps (Male and Female) for iPhone/iPad/Android/Kindle created to help artists develop their drawing skills. Each features a large...