This week’s topic over at Illustration Friday is “Baby”. This is an old doodle from my files, I just added a quick splash of color. It’s part of a concept piece I did for a client project last year that never got off the ground. At the time our sweet, adorable daughter Anna was only [...]
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I’m still swamped with freelance work. Besides putting in long (but fun!) hours on a summer-long animation project, I’m designing toys for one client and designing a mascot for another. I’ve got a few other possible projects in the works as well. But I want to make sure I still post regular updates to this [...]
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A couple of years ago author Mark Simon released a terrific reference book for artists, simply titled Facial Expressions. The 256-page book contains over 3,000 photos of 50 male and female “models” (mostly friends of the author, I suspect) making a variety of facial expressions from various angles. There’s also a section of mouth [...]
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Sorry for the slowdown in blog posts this week. Things have been pretty crazy here. I’m putting in a lot of hours on an animation project, plus this week I also whipped together some storyboards for a major retailer, did some character design sketches for a major food company, and finished up designing a mascot [...]
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I just received a brochure in the mail about a new conference tailored for creative freelancers (i.e. illustrators, designers, photographers, copyrighters, etc.) The 2008 Creative Freelancer Conference will be held Augut 27-29 in Chicago.
The conference is presented by HOW Magazine and Marketing Mentor. Topics to be discussed will include:
How do I balance finding work with [...]
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Last week I mentioned that I was cleaning out my studio closets and selling a few misc. art and animation books on Amazon.com. I received some requests to know what I’m selling, so here’s the list. If anyone is interested, just click on the item to buy. There’s some good deals if you don’t mind [...]
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Since July of 2007 I’ve been committed to posting something new every weekday. It’s a lot of fun and I’m glad that so many of you have found my humble ramblings helpful.
However, there are only so many hours in the day and lately I’ve been feeling the squeeze. I’m blessed with a lot of wonderful [...]
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My wife and I are having a garage sale this weekend and I’m unloading a few art books. While thumbing through my collection I came across a terrific book for Superman fans: Superman: Cover to Cover
Superman has always been my favorite Superhero. I fell in love with the Christopher Reeve movies as a young boy [...]
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Like logos? You’re gonna love this.
My friend Sherwin Schwartzrock is a super-talented illustrative designer. One of his specialties is designing logos, and he’s very good at it. Several of his logos will be published in the newest edition of the Logo Lounge series, Logo Lounge 5.
To celebrate, Sherwin recently created a poster showcasing nearly 200 [...]
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Blogs are becoming more and more popular. Not only are blogs popping up literally by the millions, but blog readership is skyrocketing too. Chances are most of you have at least one favorite blog that you read on a daily or semi-daily basis.
Most people still read blogs by typing in the URL and actually visiting [...]
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