The Pose Drawing Sparkbook continues to do well on Kickstarter. It's only Day 4 and it's already passed the $4,000 mark and is 45% funded! Over 2,000 people have watched the promo video and the project is now featured in the "Popular This Week"section under Kickstarter's "Publishing" category. Two artists with very large followings (over 10,000 each) have shared about it on social media...
I'm excited to announce the launch of my first Kickstarter, the Pose Drawing SparkBook! It's a super-charged sketchbook, custom designed to help artists put more life and personality into their drawings. It will include 100 drawing exercises, 32 pages of instructional content, and hundreds of additional drawing ideas in the back of the book. I'm really excited about the potential for this book...
A picture really is worth a thousand words. Tonight I saw "The Artist", a feature film getting a lot of buzz. It just won three Golden Globe including best film (musical or comedy) and some say it deserves an Oscar for Best Picture. I wouldn't quite go that far but it is a very good film. What's makes "The Artist" especially remarkable...
As I mentioned in yesterday's post, the magazine industry has seen better days. Overall readership is on a slow decline, resulting in lower subscriptions and lost advertising revenues. It looks like C. F. Payne is not the only artist being affected by it. I just learned that Disney Adventures, the snazzy comic-book magazine, is officially no more. The November issue...
My friend and fellow illustrator Paul Fricke recently sent me a great link: Advice for building a career as a freelance artist and/or paid cartoonist by Dave Roman Dave Roman has been working at Nickelodeon Magazine for the last nine years. He is also a frequent lecturer at the School of Visual Arts. This article summarizes his advice for art students just...
