A few months ago I was hired to do some spot illustrations for a new book for the Christian market entitled Chasing Skinny Rabbits, written by John Trent and published by Thomas Nelson. The concept is that, like a hunting dog chasing a scrawny rabbit, there are "skinny rabbits" in life that can lead Christians away from obeying God, until...
Happy New Year to one and all! Here's one reason I've been looking forward to 2008...
One of the wonderful things about drawing is that it allows you to create the illusion of a three-dimensional space on a flat, two-dimensonal piece of paper. But pulling this off is not as easy as it looks. It is not uncommon for artists to struggle when attempting to create a convincing sense of depth (or "perspective") in a drawing....
Thanks to the Drawn! blog, I've just learned that Wacom, Inc. is manufacturing a smaller, portable version of the Cintiq. To that I say "Yipee!", "Awesome!", and "Woo hoo!" Earlier this year my studio went all-digital. I traded in my traditional drawing board for a Cintiq, which lets me draw and paint directly onto the computer screen. It's greatly simplified my...
As I mentioned in yesterday's post, the magazine industry has seen better days. Overall readership is on a slow decline, resulting in lower subscriptions and lost advertising revenues. It looks like C. F. Payne is not the only artist being affected by it. I just learned that Disney Adventures, the snazzy comic-book magazine, is officially no more. The November issue...
(Art by C.F. Payne. Copyright © Reader's Digest.) For the last four years every issue of Reader's Digest has featured an illustration by award-winning illustrator C. F. Payne on the back cover. Payne is an exceptional illustrator, and his charming pieces for Reader's Digest hearken back to the spirit of Norman Rockwell but with a modern twist. My wife and I...
