I'm a strong believer in keeping a daily sketchbook. I'm also a hypocrite. I often go days or weeks without cracking mine open. Don't get me wrong. I do a lot of drawing but the overwhelming bulk of my artwork is created for clients with strict guidelines and objectives that have to be met. Between commissioned work and the never ending slog...
This past weekend I was in Omaha for a two-day cartooning event sponsored by the North Central Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society (of which I am a member). The schedule was jam-packed and the public was treated to a fountain of cartoon goodies including a special headline event that kicked off the weekend: a presentation by Pixar story artist...
For twenty years Walt Stanchfield was a drawing instructor at Disney, teaching and inspiring some of the worlds' best artists and animators to help them hone their craft. He often gave his students handouts filled with inspiring sketches and valuable insights into the process of gesture drawing. The handouts were so popular that they were photocopied and traded like baseball...
It's been a while so I thought I'd take a minute to shamelessly plug my website store. I plug a lot of stuff so there should be something of interest to everyone. First, you can download The Best of Head Hunting, a PDF containing over 100 of the best portrait and cartoon sketches from my two previously published sketchbooks. Includes a...
I recently ordered a copy of Kyle Baker's new book How To Draw Stupid and Other Essentials of Cartooning (Amazon.com link). For those of you who aren't familiar with Baker's work, he's a prolific cartoonist with a background in comic books and animation. His work has appeared in numerous publications including BusinessWeek, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, MAD Magazine,...
Lately I've been blessed with gobs of freelance work, but one of the downsides is that I'm so busy cranking out work for clients that my sketchbook has been gathering dust. Not a good thing. A sketchbook is an important part of any artist's development, no matter how busy or successful he/she gets. The sketchbook is the one place where you can...
