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Illustration Throwback Thursday #15

September 10th, 2015 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday

From the mid to late 90’s I did a fair amount of work for a publishing company out in the San Fransisco area that produced magazines for the local pro sports teams, including the San Fransisco Giants baseball team. I did quite a few spot illustrations to accompany short articles. Here’s a few done in traditional media from 1995 to 1999 or so. There are a few caricatures but mostly just generic ballplayers.   I believe that’s Mike Piazza and Barry Bonds first and third from the left…   READ MORE

13 Days of the Doctor- Peter Capaldi!

September 9th, 2015 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

Here’s the last of the Doctors, Peter Capaldi. This is another one I did a year or so ago, but as I still like it I’m going to use it for the new print rather than do another one. Speaking of the new print, not all the studies I shared over the last two weeks will make the final cut. Some need tweaking and one or two I have soured on, and will redo. So, when the print is released don’t be surprised if some of the caricatures of the Doctors are changed or altogether different from these studies. I’ll be debuting the print on… READ MORE

13 Days of the Doctor- Matt Smith!

September 8th, 2015 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

Back to my little run of caricature studies of the Doctors, here’s Doctor number eleven, Matt Smith! READ MORE

Monday MADness- NYCC Panel!

September 7th, 2015 | Posted in MAD Magazine

DC Comics announced its 2015 New York Comic Con panel lineup recently… including one on MAD Magazine: “Mad About MAD” – The country’s #1-selling humor magazine (in a field of 1), MAD Magazine is dumber than ever! Join Editor John Ficarra, Art Director Sam Viviano, Peter Kuper, Tom Richmond and Jonathan Bresman for a ridiculous peek at what’s happening at the magazine, and an epically, moronic Q&A. Sunday Oct 11th, 2:30pm, Room 1A21 If you are attending NYCC, stop by and find out what kind of stupidity you can expect from the Usual Gang of Idiots in the next few months! READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag- Organizing Artwork?

September 6th, 2015 | Posted in Mailbag

These are several related questions about organizing my digital illustration work, so I’ve broken them up into different single ones: Q: What does your computer filing system look like? You must have millions of works of art in various formats all over your hard drive(s). Do you organize by dated folder? By publication? Do you have a coded filing system of any kind? I don’t have millions of pieces of artwork, but I do have well over a thousand, possibles thousands. I have a separate hard drive on which I store all my artwork, including roughs, layered working files and flattened final art. It’s a… READ MORE

13 Days of the Doctor- David Tennant!

September 5th, 2015 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

Ran out of room for the hair… READ MORE

13 Days of the Doctor- Christopher Eccleston!

September 4th, 2015 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

Better late than never today… here’s my study of the the ninth Doctor- Christopher Eccleston! The original of this one and the next two are already spoken for, so they will not be in the Studio Store. READ MORE

13 Days of the Doctor- John Hurt!

September 3rd, 2015 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

This is actually a drawing I did last year of John Hurt as “The War Doctor”, technically Doctor number 8.5. I still like it so I’ll be using it as the basis of the final one I do for my upcoming limited edition print. READ MORE

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