[youtube_sc url=ySOCLvMO-Js width=430] I've just completed my first-ever YouTube drawing demo video. Back when I was raising funds on Kickstarter for the Pose Drawing Sparkbook, I promised my backers that if we reached a certain goal I'd do a demo video, with commentary, based on a drawing prompt from the book. The prompt I chose reads: "Vending machine took their money". There's a bit...
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...
The Pose Drawing Sparkbook just broke the tape! We are now 100% funded and this thing is gonna happen! Woo hoo! (Hard to type this while I'm dancing a jig.) Thank you all so much!! I'm sending a fist bump with this message - just touch your knuckles to the screen. We still have 8 days to push forward toward some awesome stretch goals....
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...
Special weekend stretch goal! If my Kickstarter, the Pose Drawing Sparkbook, hits $10,000 by noon Monday (central time) I'll draw a silly cartoon for my backers (written without dialogue, of course). More info here: http://ow.ly/nOqBx...
