Lately I've been blessed with gobs of freelance work, but one of the downsides is that I'm so busy cranking out work for clients that my sketchbook has been gathering dust. Not a good thing. A sketchbook is an important part of any artist's development, no matter how busy or successful he/she gets. The sketchbook is the one place where you can...
I wanted to take a minute to plug a fellow Twin Cities illustrator, Pete Krause. He's been doing concept art, storyboards, and comic books for years and his work is excellent. His website just got a face lift, and it looks very nice. Take a peek: www.peterkrauseillustration.com [EDIT: Broken link has been fixed.] My own website is badly in need of a...
As I mentioned a couple of posts back, one of my clients specializes in themed birthday cakes. They decided they'd like to manufacture little plastic trees to use on some of the cakes, and asked me to draw one up. Here's the concept sketches and final turnarounds I submitted. The tree could only be so tall and so wide. The grey...
On Saturday I was in a comic book shop and came across a real treasure of a book,The Artist Within: Portraits of Cartoonists, Comic Book Artists, Animators, and Others by Greg Preston (Amazon.com link). This hefty picture book features full-page photographs of over 100 prominent cartoonists at home in their studios. The long list of legends featured includes Jack Kirby,...
Some days it seems like everything goes wrong at once. A couple of weeks ago my computer started acting funny, and after several hours on the phone with five different tech support people, I was told I have to completely wipe my hard drive and reinstall everything from scratch. While I wasn't thrilled, my Mac is getting old (going on...
Cedric's Blog-O-Rama officially began three years ago today. I've sinced switched from Blogger to WordPress, and moved from a semi-daily to daily format and then back again. Readership has more than tripled. Besides just my Mom, I know of at least two other people who read my humble ramblings. A hearty thank-you to all of you!...
