I just had this postcard made up in time for the SCBWI Publisher’s Bootcamp this weekend. There’s going to a talks by local agents and art director Goldstein from Sasquatch…
I just heard the great news that my Squid Attack on the Nautilus got accepted to the Comics, Anime, Cartoons, and Fantasy…
I’m experimenting more with different ways to color drawings. The IpadPro, Apple Pencil, and the $5.99 app Procreate make the process more like traditional painting. At left is my original homework…
Every week, the class assignment is to have each person suggest an illustration or group of illustrations based on the reading. For the chapter on tone, I chose this 1912…
Hope you like this drawing, Hide and Seek. I really enjoyed drawing it. I’m getting a much better sense of drawing birds in flight. It was nice too getting back…
I’m looking forward to sculpting this tomorrow – we’re supposed to take a myth and create a container based on it. This was my favorite idea for the Tibetan story…
It’s been a busy quarter with two studio classes. In color, we started out with assignments to paint in different color harmonies – which forced us to experiment with non-usual…
James Gurney has a great blog, Gurney Journey with great resources for how he learns to paint imaginary characters with life-like weighting, color, and balance. He uses references photos extensively to…
Learning to use a pen tool yesterday. Here’s Mandrill and Parrot in Abandoned House.
I had an incredible opportunity to study with Allen Williams at the TLC Workshops in October. Williams is a master of highly realistic fantasy drawings and I experimented for the…