The Pose Drawing Sparkbook continues to do well on Kickstarter. It's only Day 4 and it's already passed the $4,000 mark and is 45% funded! Over 2,000 people have watched the promo video and the project is now featured in the "Popular This Week"section under Kickstarter's "Publishing" category. Two artists with very large followings (over 10,000 each) have shared about it on social media...
I'm excited to announce the launch of my first Kickstarter, the Pose Drawing SparkBook! It's a super-charged sketchbook, custom designed to help artists put more life and personality into their drawings. It will include 100 drawing exercises, 32 pages of instructional content, and hundreds of additional drawing ideas in the back of the book. I'm really excited about the potential for this book...
Very soon I'll be launching a Kickstarter project, a new tool to help artists add more life and personality to their poses. In preparation I've started doing pose sketches to communicate various themes and situations. I've already posted a page of sketches playing off the theme of "tired". Here's one of a man getting dressed in a hurry. Once the Kickstarter...
I'm working on a Kickstarter project that I'm planning to launch soon. I don't want to say too much about it yet, but it will be a tool designed to help other artists strengthen their poses and put more life into their drawings. One of the exercises related to the project is to take a mood or an expression and explore...
Thought I'd share a card I sketched for my wife on Mother's Day. She's much prettier and slimmer than this, and usually not grumpy at all. But when you have young children there are definitely mornings that feel this way. ...
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...
