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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...

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...

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...

The International Consumer Electronics Show is currently underway and all sorts of new gadgets and gizmos are being unveiled. Today I stumbled upon a glowing review from MacWorld of a new iPad stylus that, as far as I know, is the first to offer true pressure sensitivity for iOS. If it lives up to the hype, the Jot Touch from...

It's not very often I get to take a little extra time to add some polish and shading to a sketch, but the Christmas/New Year's break allowed me to slow down and be a little more leisurely with my drawing. Here's a study I worked up in Photoshop using my Cintiq. It's based on this photo which I found using...