A very quick one of former NFL running back turned reality TV dancer Emmitt Smith: I guess he won something either by dancing or by wearing the dumbest outfit ever worn by a man on television… I don’t get ‘reality’ TV. READ MORE
Another Heroes cast member, Hayden Panettiere: Save the Cheerleader, Save the World! READ MORE
A quick figure study out of an old copy of Sports Illustrated For a while there I was getting a lot of the sports related artwork in MAD, and I did a lot of sports art for various other clients like the Minnesota Twins, the San Fransisco Giants and a few others. I haven’t done much of that lately. Personally I think drawing athletes in action is better done from memory than from photo reference. At the very least you have to simplify the figure and boil down the action to more archtypical poses. Fast shutter pictures capture weird folds and awkward moments in movement.… READ MORE
Here’s today’s sketch, celebrity nutcase Tom Cruise: The tabloids, magazines and press love to jump all over people like Cruise, who seem to take themselves way too seriously and offer up their opinions on anything and everything as if they don’t make their living pretending to be other people in front of a camera but are instead expert psychologists, politicians or what have you. People have been ridiculing Cruise (perhaps justly) for months and his career has even suffered as a result. However can we really blame actors like Cruise for thinking they are more important than the rest of us? Who’s really to blame?… READ MORE
Happy Thanksgiving! Of course Opsman probably doesn’t think this looks anything like a turkey…. READ MORE
Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat. I confess to have never seen a single second of this guy’s act. I don’t know why… just can’t work up the interest. READ MORE
As long as I’m on the subject, today’s sketch is Heroes Ali Larter– READ MORE
I’ve been visiting a lot of art blogs lately… there are a ton of them out there and an unbelievable number of great talents as well. One thing I’ve noticed about many of them compared to mine: they have a lot more art. I seem to mostly talk (so to speak). I like to write so that won’t completely change, but artists like my friend Steve Silver always inspire me with their seemingly unending commitment to draw, draw, draw. It seems like I never draw anymore unless it’s for a job. If you never do it for yourself, it becomes nothing but a job. So,… READ MORE
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