September 15th, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Here’s something completely different. In the last 6 months I’ve been asked to do quite a bit of illustration for animation… stuff like iPad Apps, movie character design, character design for advertising and now of course the stuff for the MAD Show. The thing is I have never done anything like that before, and am flying mostly blind when it comes to doing things like turnarounds, style sheets… basically all the fundamentals that make animation character design work. So, I am taking my pal Steve Silver‘s highly recommended on-line “Character Design” course through Schoolism.com. Steve is one of the best animation character designers working today,… READ MORE
September 8th, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Super busy right now, but here is a quick profile study of “House” star Hugh Laurie done with a brush pen and some digital gray washes… This guy has got a great face to caricature. READ MORE
September 1st, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s sketch is one for a quick job I’m doing of Nevada senator Harry Reid. Click the image for a closer look… READ MORE
August 18th, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s sketch: pop star Katy Perry. A lot of people seem to dislike her, thinking she’s extremely vulgar and overtly sexual… but I think she’s doing all that over the top stuff with tongue firmly in cheek (insert “tongue firmly in somewhere joke here”). She’s intentionally being a parody of the Britney Spears/Christina Aguilera school of candy-like sex doll pop singers. READ MORE
August 4th, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Click for a closer look… This week’s sketch is a cop out… sorry. This was a pencil rough for a recent poster illustration of a goofy halloween party scene. I’ll post the final art sometime soon. READ MORE
July 28th, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s sketch is of comedienne Stephanie Coutney AKA the goofy but still oddly attractive Flo from the Progressive commercials. READ MORE
July 21st, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Usually I completely avoid drawing reality TV “stars” as they don’t need more encouragement or even as mild an extension of their mostly undeserved 15 minutes of fame as my modest little blog provides. However since I had already stooped to drawing his therapy-bound kids and his fame-seeking horror of an ex-wife, I figured I might as well do the trifecta and draw the deplorable Jon Gosselin. This one is a little different, done with a fine tip pen. READ MORE
July 14th, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
One of the less picturesque bits of scenery on Sint Maarten… READ MORE
