This is it! The home stretch! As I write this there are only 30 hours left to back the Pose Drawing Sparkbook on Kickstarter. I'm excited to say the project has been a success - 100% funded with over 450 backers and counting - and we've been pushing forward through some fun stretch goals. I really the Sparkbook will be a...
(This excerpt is from a rough draft of the Pose Drawing Sparkbook, a super-charged sketchbook designed to help you put more life and personality into your drawings. Think of it as acting exercises for your sketchbook.Read other snippets here and here.) As human beings we all experience the same basic emotions, but everyone has their own unique personality through which those emotions are filtered. This can...
News about my Kickstarter the Pose Drawing Sparkbook continues to spread! More sites are featuring it including On Animation, Animator Island, ShowMeTheAnimation, ComicRelated, and even a concept art blog from Brazil. But the biggest news is that the Sparkbook is now on the pop culture blog BleedingCool.com. I wrote a short article for them called Attack of the Killer Word Balloons (Why Artists Should Study Silent Storytelling) and whipped up...
(This excerpt is from the Pose Drawing Sparkbook, a super-charged sketchbook designed to help you put more life and personality into your drawings. Think of it as acting exercises for your sketchbook.Read other snippets here and here.) Don't limit your acting to just the face and hands. The head makes up less than ten percent of a person's body. You've got another ninety percent of...
(This excerpt is from the Pose Drawing Sparkbook, a super-charged sketchbook designed to help you put more life and personality into your drawings. Think of it as acting exercises for your sketchbook. Read other snippets here and here.) Action Reveals Character (Excerpt) Once you decide who each character is, you need to find ways to introduce them to the audience. Here are three common shortcuts you can...
As I wrote in my last post I've been trying to get back into the habit of keeping a daily sketchbook in addition to my client work. Some days are better than others but overall I'm making good progress. Even after fourteen years working as a freelance illustrator I still enjoying finding new ways to push myself to grow and...
