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28 Sep

Posted at 21:59h in Uncategorized
(EDIT: I’m having problems with the images in this post. My apologies if they don’t load.) Since I’m getting married Oct. 8, some friends of mine decided to throw me a surprise bachelor party. We’ve had a long-standing tradition of keeping it clean and fun while embarrassing the groom-to-be as much as possible. I’m the last one in the group...

05 Sep

Posted at 09:30h in Uncategorized
I’ve been cooped up the entire Labor Day weekend trying to meet a deadline. Fortunately, TV Land is showing a 72-hour Michael Landon marathon (an uplifting contrast to Hurricane Katrina). So tonight I thought I’d unwind with a sketch Charles Ingalls. Call me a sap, but I’ve always enjoyed Little House on the Prairie. Sure it’s a little hokey by...

21 Aug

Posted at 19:12h in Character Design
I love sketching and try and take a sketchbook with me wherever I go, always striving to improve my drawing skills. It’s true what they say, there aren’t any shortcuts to artistic excellence. There’s only one long, winding road called Practice. Every time I start thinking I’ve “arrived” as an artist, I look at the work of two other very...

07 Aug

Posted at 11:48h in Uncategorized
Newspaper syndicates may soon be a thing of the past. Cartoonist Scott Kurtz has one of the most successful comic strips on the web. PVP is a smartly-written strip about the publishers of a gaming magazine. Scott gets about a jillion hits a month to his site, and his popular strip has recently expanded into print (through Image comics), t-shirts,...

07 Aug

Posted at 04:28h in Uncategorized
My warm-up sketch today was for a cowboy thread on The Drawing Board. For the color I experimented with some Photshop brushes. I really want to get a better grasp of what Photoshop can do.