“Students! You have just under a month to get your applications in for theย Jay Kennedy cartooning scholarship. This is a great opportunity to not only help pay for your education, but to meet and be celebrated by the NCS at their annual Reuben Awards party weekend.” -Reposted from Drawn
Dear Quentin Blake’s drawings: I love you. Quentin Blake is one of my favourite illustrators of all time and I recently checked out his book, Alphabeasts, from the library. I couldn’t help but try my hand at some of his drawings. They’re always so energetic. When I was little I would sometimes get frustrated that…
You can no longer talk about children’s book art in Utah without hearing Willy Terry’s name pop up. This is a good thing. A very good thing. See what I mean? This is a typical painting from Will—and by ‘typical’ I mean teeming with rich, luscious colors, playful contrast between light and dark tones, endearing…
Tom Gauld has been a favorite cartoonist and illustrator of mine for nearly a decade now. His small self-published books and comics in the early 2000s were a healthy part of my balanced visual arts diet and his drawings and storytelling have only improved over the years. You might recognize Tom’s simplistic, minimalistic drawing style…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sRO5sipTKY&feature=channel_video_title] This is a video I made for an IT company that will be launching soon. They wanted something simple and direct that would describe their services in a way that was fun and easy-to-understand. This is the first in a series of several animations I’ll be making for their clients, as well as their…
Watch out—today I am unleashing… THE CHAIN GANGย is a hilarious 1,000-page ultra comic about a group of unwanted and forgotten bicycles led by Poppa Wheelie that band together to wreak havoc on the world, one neighborhood at a time! Instead of waiting years for me to draw all 1,000 pages, I’m going to be releasing…
I’ve been thinking of running a UStream video of an illustration or comics page from start to finish. Would anyone be interested in watching something like that, or would it just be a waste of time? Is there anything you’d like to see? [polldaddy poll=5396614] Also: I came across this quote from Lawrence Pearsall Jacks…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2a8TRSgzZY&feature=player_embedded] Even if they don’t experience it themselves, everyone who works freelance knows the woes of the provider / client relationship. This video shows just how ridiculous it can sometimes be. Just watching this video gives you a pretty good idea of some of the ways the freelancing industry works.
Had these babies printed a while back for Free Comic Book Day. I’ve been passing them out at schools and library presentations, and the conventions and symposiums I’ve been presenting at. What do you think?