Inktober is underway! I'm looking forward to contributing now and then as my schedule allows. Recently I posted a free list of Inktober sketchbook ideas based on the Pose Drawing Sparkbook. Today's drawing prompt reads: "A clumsy jester has spilled wine all over the king." This was what I doodled up, working digitally in Photoshop with some fun brushes from...
My friend Troy Wetzel challenged me to the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Instead of soaking myself in water I decided to make a fun little sketch and turn it into a drawing video. I also think it's important to give money to help those fighting ALS so I'm making a donation. I am pro-life which creates a bit of an ethical...
Recently I was hired by VeggieTales creator Phil Vischer to help develop some characters for a fun new project he is working on. I can't say much about it yet, but he has given me permission to post just a few of the dozens of concept sketches I did for the characters he's been developing. I can tell you one...
Yesterday I took a break from my busy work load to just play around in my sketchbook. I decided to use Stephen Silver's excellent Character Design Shuffle app (available for iOS and Android). Each time you use the app it picks from several random character traits (gender, occupation, type of animal, emotion, etc.) to build a character assignment for you...
It took a lot longer than I planned but I've finally finished the last stretch goal in my Kickstarter campaign for the Pose Drawing Sparkbook. Back in August 2013 I said that if the campaign reached $15,000 I would create a free bonus PDF of fifty sketchbook ideas, written "Mad Libs" style. That goal was reached, and the list is...
I've been doing a ton of client work over the past few weeks (most of which I can't show or talk about). Every once in a while I just have to set it all aside and play around with my sketchbook. Over on Twitter is a fun feed called @sketch_dailies. They publish a daily character-based sketchbook idea, then artists from all...
