Obama - Hirschfeld style

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 Posted in blog, for-artists | 2 Comments »

Process of Elimination

Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in blog, for-artists | 3 Comments »

12 of the original comic strips in the above slide show have been taken down. It was origianally 18 strips long, but there are now 6. So why did I eliminate 2/3 of my comics? My goal with this ...

BG Character Designs

Friday, May 23rd, 2008 Posted in blog, for-artists | 3 Comments »

Here are some sketches I did for the upcoming character in the next strip. Prayer Part 2 soon to come.

the Evolution of a Comic Strip

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 Posted in blog, for-artists | 1 Comment »

This recent comic strip gave me one hell of a fight. I ended up making a number of changes to this strip like I do many of my strips. I thought I'd share with you the different stages ...

Ira Glass On Storytelling

Saturday, April 26th, 2008 Posted in blog, for-artists, videos | 2 Comments »

This for me was a really great find. Listening to this man talk about storytelling is so compelling, and he's telling you how to tell a compelling stories. I found this on Dantat.com. It's not about visual ...

Perspective

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in blog, for-artists | 3 Comments »

I'm currently teaching an advanced perspective and conceptual drawing class right now so I've been thinking a lot about perspective. Most of us are fairly familiar with the system of perspective developed 400 years ago during the renaisance, but ...

Character Design

Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in blog, for-artists | 3 Comments »

Character Reference Charts I had almost forgotten about this model that David Liu built for me back in school. It's been awhile since I opened up Maya. I'm creating some character reference so that I can ...

Photoshop Video Tutorials

Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in blog, for-artists, videos | 5 Comments »

Check out the new Photoshop video tutorials. There are intro, intermediate, and advanced digital painting videos to help speed up your work. Advanced Techniques Video This video will show you how to edit with clipping layers and masks. It's important ...

Featured Artist Kazu Kabuishi

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 Posted in Links, blog, for-artists | 3 Comments »

The Art of Kazu Kabuishi, editor of the "Flight" anthology, artist/author of the webcomic "Copper," and artist/author of "Amulet." scroll down to read the interview. Kazu Kibuishi isn't the first artist/editor to pull together ...

Ever Felt like giving up? How to find your ultimate motivation.

Thursday, January 17th, 2008 Posted in for-artists | 17 Comments »

Starting Strong but Rarely Finishing... Have you ever gotten inspired to create your life's greatest work only to find yourself worn out and giving up shortly after? We all want to produce great work with a meaningful story, but what will ...

Super Great Timing

Monday, December 10th, 2007 Posted in for-artists, videos | 4 Comments »

Wow, seemingly pointless, but hard not to watch once you start it. You just have to watch it. Very creative, very fun, great use of timing and music. If you are an animator then pay close attention the use of ...

Quick Sketch - How to Draw like a Pro

Saturday, November 17th, 2007 Posted in blog, for-artists | 1,258 Comments »

Like to draw? Want to get better at drawing? What's the easiest way to learn? Have you ever wondered how comic artists and animators can draw anything at any angle, quickly, without looking at anything, and make it look good? ...