Here's a few YouTube videos I've stumbled upon recently from some artists whose work I admire: Dennis Jones is a phenominal illustrator. He draws very fun, entertaining cartoon characters and then paints them with a master's eye for color and shading. Here's a quick demo of him painting in Photoshop. View Dennis' YouTube channel for more videos: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAePfwfCYbc] Here the very talented Denis...
Freelance work has slowed down this week due to the upcoming Thanksgiving weekend. With Wednesday and Friday being travel days it becomes essentially a five-day weekend for a lot of my clients. Deadlines get pushed back accordingly. I've been using the lull in my schedule to tackle a mountain of paperwork and emails that have piled up while I was...
I recently ordered a copy of Kyle Baker's new book How To Draw Stupid and Other Essentials of Cartooning (Amazon.com link). For those of you who aren't familiar with Baker's work, he's a prolific cartoonist with a background in comic books and animation. His work has appeared in numerous publications including BusinessWeek, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, MAD Magazine,...
Still crunching on deadlines. However, here's a blog I recently stumbled on by a very talented artist. I don't know his name but I like his work: Gorilla88 Check it out!...
Things are about to get pretty busy here deadline-wise over the next few days. I'm probably going to be working through the weekend. Bummer. In lieu of a regular blog post, here's a few quick links that I thought were fun: Non-Digital Photoshop - Something for all you Photoshop users who prefer to do things old-school. Tons of free cartoons - According...
Most of my work on the 3-2-1 Penguins! TV series was character designs and a few props here and there. However, for one episode I was asked to help out on some last-minute effects work. That episode aired this past weekend on NBC so I am finally able to show the art publicly. In this episode the penguins and Michelle answer...
