A couple of years ago author Mark Simon released a terrific reference book for artists, simply titled Facial Expressions. The 256-page book contains over 3,000 photos of 50 male and female "models" (mostly friends of the author, I suspect) making a variety of facial expressions from various angles. There's also a section of mouth phonemes and a few pages...
Since July of 2007 I've been committed to posting something new every weekday. It's a lot of fun and I'm glad that so many of you have found my humble ramblings helpful. However, there are only so many hours in the day and lately I've been feeling the squeeze. I'm blessed with a lot of wonderful people and projects to fill...
My wife and I are having a garage sale this weekend and I'm unloading a few art books. While thumbing through my collection I came across a terrific book for Superman fans: Superman: Cover to Cover Superman has always been my favorite Superhero. I fell in love with the Christopher Reeve movies as a young boy in the mid-80's and soon...
Like logos? You're gonna love this. My friend Sherwin Schwartzrock is a super-talented illustrative designer. One of his specialties is designing logos, and he's very good at it. Several of his logos will be published in the newest edition of the Logo Lounge series, Logo Lounge 5. To celebrate, Sherwin recently created a poster showcasing nearly 200 of the logos he's created...
Blogs are becoming more and more popular. Not only are blogs popping up literally by the millions, but blog readership is skyrocketing too. Chances are most of you have at least one favorite blog that you read on a daily or semi-daily basis. Most people still read blogs by typing in the URL and actually visiting the blog website to see...
In case you haven't heard, today is National Cartoonists Day. It's been pretty hard to miss with all the National Cartoonists Day sales at the Mall. I think government workers get the day off too. Seriously, here's the scoop: The Yellow Kid, the very first color comic strip, was first published today (May 5) in 1895. Gradually the comics became a...
