Thanks to Bob Ostrom for nominating me for the Superior Scribbler Award. It’s always an honor to be recognized by another artist, and this particular award is a lot of fun.
Here are the rules to the award:
Each Superior Scribbler must, in turn, pass the Award on to 5 most-deserving Bloggy buds.
Each Superior Scribbler must link [...]
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Just a crazy random thought….is it just me, or do these two look uncannily alike?
[EDIT: The photos above were just featured as “Toon Twins” in today’s (8/18/09) daily newsletter from AnimationMagazin.net. It’s a free email, worth signing up.)
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“Mascot Contest 2″ officially ended on Friday. A lot of people entered and most identified all the mascots correctly. Those who did were entered in the drawing. I put the entries on slips of paper and my two-year-old daughter picked one out of a baseball cap.
The winner of the mascot contest is David Oldham. Congrats [...]
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(EDIT: Contest is now closed. Winner and correct answers here.)
As a character designer I’m fascinated with product mascots. A good mascot, when combined with a strong ad campaign, can be an enormous benefit when promoting a product or service. My favorite freelance projects are when clients hire me to design a mascot or character, either [...]
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My friend and fellow illustrator Tom Richmond recently posted this YouTube video on his blog. It’s a hilarious illustration of the ways some clients will try to take advantage of freelancers. Fortunately I don’t run into this kind of thing much anymore. My clients for the most part have been great and treat me like [...]
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My wife and I spent Memorial Day weekend in Los Angeles to visit clients and to attend the NCS Reubuens Awards Weekend. We started off the weekend meeting with one of my favorite clients, Ray Comfort (evangelist, author, and co-host of the TV series The Way of the Master with actor Kirk Cameron). We were [...]
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Today is Good Friday, the day Christians celebrate the crucifixion of Jesus. A crucifixion seems like an odd thing to celebrate, but it is in fact good news. How’s that, you ask? A couple of years ago I partnered with the ministry of Living Waters to illustrate a short cartoon gospel tract that explains what [...]
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This is kind of interesting and maybe a little weird.
I’m a freelance illustrator and I’ve got two daughters, no sons. Once a month I meet with some other local illustrators for lunch, and if you add up all of our kids the daughters far outnumber the sons.
A few weeks ago I was at a chapter [...]
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My wife and I just watched Ben Stein’s movie “Expelled” on DVD. I had seen it in theaters but forgot how good it was. It’s a funny and very thought-provoking look at the debate between intelligent design and evolution.
There’s even a couple of animated sequences in the film. A 2D cartoon clip and an impressive [...]
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On Saturday a local comic book shop was promoting an event and hired actors to walk around dressed as super heroes. It was as close as I could come to attending Comic-Con this year.
During a break my friend Mike snapped this photo in the parking lot:
Here’s your assignment: Write a funny caption and post it [...]
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