As I mentioned in a recent post I sometimes design novelty toys for DecoPac, a national leader in the cake industry. Often the toys involve licensed characters but sometimes they are more generic. For this project the client wanted to update the design of their "Sports Fan" cake. I'm not a sports fan myself but I would imagine this particular...
Too busy for a real blog post, but here's a quick link in honor of one of my favorite holidays: Top 100 April Fools Day Hoaxes of All Time. Enjoy!...
Two days ago I posed a curious question: Are the offspring of artistic men more likely to be boys or girls? Most of the artists I know who are parents (myself included) have all girls or mostly girls, and that seemed a little odd to me. So far thirty of you have taken my informal survey. The results are below. Assuming...
Earlier this week my wife and I hosted a couple for dinner, illustrator Toby Dugan and his wife Vonnie. Toby is a retired artist, evangelist, and magician and one of my wife's long-time family friends. He was kind enough to bring his portfolio to my studio which was a real treat! For much of his career Toby was a commercial artist...
For twenty years Walt Stanchfield was a drawing instructor at Disney, teaching and inspiring some of the worlds' best artists and animators to help them hone their craft. He often gave his students handouts filled with inspiring sketches and valuable insights into the process of gesture drawing. The handouts were so popular that they were photocopied and traded like baseball...
It's been a while since I took the time to answer reader questions. These posts take longer to write, and with life getting crazy and my blog moving from a daily to semi-daily format, they fell by the wayside. I decided it's time to try to weave this feature back into the mix. To make up for lost time I'll answer...
