04 Dec To Infinity And Beyond: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios
Upcoming On Thursday and Friday I'll be posting a two-part series with tips for beginning freelancers on how to bid out a project. Keep an eye out. Now, on to today's post...
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21 Nov Happy Thanksgiving!
(NOTE: There will be not blog post tomorrow. I'll be spending the holiday with family and trying to catch up on some much needed sleep.) This sketch was done a year or two ago when my friends at DrawerGeeks decided we should each do an emergency turkey drawing. Draw a turkey–fast! Quick sketches only, no more than a few minutes. No...
20 Nov Sour Apples
I'm a huge Apple fan. I love their products. I drink the Kool-Aid. I sometimes wander in to the Apple store just so I can drool.
But lately the effects of the Kool-Aid are starting to wear off.
My biggest beef is with Leopard, Apple's new operating system. Leopard's new features promised to bring a new level of productivity and flexibility to my computer experience. I'm a sucker for anything that saves time or makes me more productive, so I upgraded to Leopard almost immediately. I should have known better. Apple has a nasty habit of releasing operating systems before they are truly ready. I knew the upgrade would be klunky at first and I was prepared to encounter a few annoying bugs. I never expected this much disappointment.
14 Nov Sketchbook Update
To warm up each morning I've been trying to fill a page a day in my sketchbook. However, I've been so swamped with freelance work that I've only been averaging about a page a week. Better than nothing, I guess. Here's a few heads I drew the other day from some old photos....
13 Nov Oops!
Looks like I've made my mistake for the month. Feels good to have that out of the way. A couple of weeks ago I started writing a blog post comparing the costs and benefits of various online advertising methods available to freelance artists. The article is still a rough draft, very much in progress. Unfortunately, due to my clumsy thumbs the...
07 Nov Deadline Crunch
Another busy week of freelancing. I've fallen a bit behind on my character design work for 3-2-1 Penguins, and since we are wrapping up pre-production it's crunch time, the worst time to fall behind. Besides Penguins I'm also working on an advertising mascot, an illustration for a software company, an illustration for a Spanish curriculum textbook, and a series of...