I’ve had two sudden cancellations for my workshop in Atlanta, GA coming up in March, so the previously sold out class now has two available openings! Click here for the details! READ MORE
Back in MAD #520 (April 2013) I did the art for this three page parody mash up of the TV reality show “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” and the long-running conic strip “The Family Circus”. I had a particularly fun time doing this one because cartoonist Jeff Keane, who took over the strip from his dad Bil Keane several years before Bil’s passing in 2011, is a good friend of mine. In fact, when MAD assigned this to me, I called Jeff up and didn’t tell him this was coming as I wanted to surprise him, but during our conversation asked him “So, what kind… READ MORE
Q: I draw more caricatures for free and fun than commissions or through my sign business but a friend recently shared a bad legal experience with me that left a little too much fear in my pencil. He said his company was sued by a photographer(they settled out of court so there was no legal determination) for purchasing and using a freelance artists Illustration of a grizzly bear that the artist referenced their photograph (without permission) to create his illustration. The photographer saw the Illustration on my friend’s company website (they sell high end illustrations) and filed a suit against the company that paid the… READ MORE
It looks unlikely that I can do a full three day workshop in Amsterdam. The costs of staging one are just too high… I have to charge more than I think people would be able or willing to pay to do it. So here’s a new idea I have been toying with: a single day workshop. This would be a kind of crash course of a class, eliminating some of the extras like my inking and illustration coloring demos, the live caricature round robin, my work retrospective, and a few other things and getting right to the fundamentals of my theories behind seeing and observing,… READ MORE
I know this is usually “Illustration Throwback Thursday” but yesterday was a holiday, so I bumped this to today. We recently had a little water damage in a basement storage area and I had to clean the whole room out, digging through a lot of boxes of old papers and file cabinets full of stuff that mostly got tossed out. Some of it was old artwork or copies of same. During the digging I came across this one-page comic I did in 1991. For a very brief period of time I did some editorial cartoons for what was then the Comic Buyer’s Guide, a trade… READ MORE
If you missed out on one of my specially priced holiday caricatures, you can still get this one I did of the MCU’s Spider-Man Tom Holland as a sample for the brush pen/marker technique in the Studio Store. READ MORE
EDIT: Well that did not take too long. I’ve afraid all 15 spots are spoken for. My apologies if you did not get a chance to get one. I usually do not do this sort of thing outside of comic book conventions, and even then I only do these full color brush pen and Copic marker illustrations on the blank MAD sketch covers (which are much smaller than this). However just for the holidays I’m making 15 of these personal caricature commissions available. I’m doing them on 11″ x 14″ bristol, in brush and various pens, colored with Copic markers and a touch of colored… READ MORE
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