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...
Since tomorrow is the last day of 2011, I thought I'd take a moment to review some of the many highlights and accomplishments of my illustration studio over the past year: Toy Design I worked on a variety of toy design, packaging illustration, and presentation sketches for a major toy company to help relaunch one of their well-known brands. Unfortunately the confidentiality...
A couple of years ago I was hired by the owner of a small food company to design a mascot for a new line of chocolate covered cashews. His idea was to call them "Chocolate Covered Elf Ears", since the shape reminded him of the ears on a small elf and he thought it would be a fun way to...
My last post was a little heavy-handed, so I thought I'd lighten things up a bit. Enjoy a good laugh, and have a very Merry Christmas! [youtube_sc url=CYbVpAwGGGs width=450]...
