The other day the nice folks at Wacom included one of my toy design concept drawings on their Behance "Featured" gallery. Like most artists who work digitally, I'm a long-time user of Wacom's products. They make quality hardware and they are the go-to brand for digital drawing equipment (tablets, Cintiqs, etc.). It's a real honor to have them shine their massive...
A popular exercise for cartoonists and character designers is to randomly pick from a list of characteristics (occupations, personality types, animal types, emotions, etc.) and then sketch a cartoon character based on them. Some artists, such as Chris Ayers, actually keep a Ziploc bag full of little slips of paper with such traits written on them. They pull out a...
More and more artists, especially in the animation community, seem to be flocking to Tumblr. I've decided to tag along. One the one hand I don't really need yet another social network to stay on top of (I'm already active on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Behance, and every once in a while I still make an appearance Pinterest, DeviantArt,...
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...
I do all my artwork from start to finish in Photoshop. It's a very powerful program and overall I enjoy using it. But I've never been thrilled with Photoshop's brushes. There's nothing in Photoshop that does a good job simulating the look and feel of a real-world graphite pencil. Painter and Sketchbook Pro are have pretty good pencil brushes, but I'm...
