I’ve added three magazines to my Recommended Resources link at Amazon.com. Communication Arts is a quality art magazine for creatives. It’s an expensive magazine printed on thick glossy paper, but it has a lot of good content. Several issues are themed around “annuals” (Design Annual, Illustration Annual, Photography Annual, etc.) which means that a big […]
Leopard: A Sweet Ride With A Bumpy Start
Before getting into today’s post, I want to thank the guys over at Drawn! for graciously writing a little blurb about my Schoolism.com posts on October 20. That day I got a lot of visitors to this site–over 3,700–and the following day my blog made #61 in the top 100 WordPress blogs for that day. […]
Putting Life In Your Poses
I recently purchased the special edition DVD of Disney’s Jungle Book. It is widely regarded as one of the all-time classics of animation. Not because of the story. The plot is so simple that the movie should be a total bore. The movie is revered because of the characters. They are so incredibly entertaining and […]
Deadline Crunch
At the moment I’m under the pile with five freelance projects. I’m doing turnarounds and mouth charts for an upcoming episode of 3-2-1 Penguins!, I’m creating some spot illustrations for a website, I’m designing a character for a popular food product (can’t say what yet), I’m illustrating some Spanish curriculum, and I’m getting started on […]
HOW Webinar Series
HOW Magazine is a leading publication in the art and graphics community. If you don’t subscribe, you should. There are a ton of great articles on both the creative and business aspects of being a commercial artist. Recently HOW started offering a series of online “webinars”. (A webinar is a seminar broadcast over the web.) […]
Jott
My mind wanders when I’m driving. A lot. One of the worst times to get a bright idea or remember to make a note about something is in the car. Taking my hands off the wheel to scribble a note on the back of a receipt is probably not the smartest thing in the world […]