I just had a cancellation for my Orlando workshop taking place Dec 6-8th, and no one on the waitlist is available to take it, so the spot is open! I’m fully booked for the rest of 2019, so this is your last chance to get in on a workshop this year! READ MORE
We had a lot of old school subjects for our warmups last weekend. Here’s one of 60/70’s music icon Joni Mitchell. Funny, I spend some time at each workshop teaching people that cheekbones are usually much higher on the face than most people draw them, and then they pick a subject for a warm-up who has unusually low (and big) cheekbones. READ MORE
Michael Cavna writes a story about how the Tarantino prop covers all came together for his “Comic Riffs” feature on the Washington Post website. READ MORE
We spent a little more time on this one at the workshop just because the photo reference had a lot of heavy shadows so we had to do a lot of values to get anything that worked. READ MORE
Under a multiple deadline crunch right now so no time for a new “sketch o’the Week”. Instead here’s one of our warmup sketches from my workshop in Washington DC last weekend, Gene Wilder. First thing on the second day of the workshop we do four warmup sketches of subjects suggested on the spot by the class. We spend 10-15 minutes on each. I search for and then project an image on the left and then draw it on the right side as seen above while the class also draws it. It gets us revved up for a long day of drawing. READ MORE
In our last episode, I told the story of how I was lucky enough to get to meet Quentin Tarantino on the set of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” to deliver the original prop art I did for him. During our conversation he told me about his idea to do a parody of the fictitious “Bounty Law” TV show that Leonardo DiCaprio‘s character was supposed to have starred in back in the late 50’s early 60’s. I told him we should pitch that to MAD and see what happens. What happened was the folks at MAD thought it was a great idea, so in… READ MORE
Arriving in subscribers mailboxes now, on news stands (one last time) tomorrow and in comic book shops everywhere Wednesday! Cover (Tom Richmond) MAD Straight Jacket Ad (reprinted from various, first appeared in MAD #46) Letters Page (Ed.) Lousy Law (Andrew Secunda, Tom Richmond) Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper) The Lighter Side of (Tammy Golden, Jon Adams) Cartoon Scenes We’d Like to See (Sergio Aragonés, Colors: Carrie Strachan) Shorts & Briefs Panel Cartoon (Anya Davidson) Woodstock Puzzle (Charlie Kadau) Panel Cartoon (P.C. Vey) Panel Cartoon (Charlie Hankin) Panel Cartoon (Jon Adams) Panel Cartoon (Lars Kenseth) Signs She’s Not Into You (Arie Kaplan, A Person, Colors: Nathan… READ MORE
Q: You’ve said that when you do live caricatures, you draw features in a specific order, starting with the eyes. I’m curious whether you have a similar approach when you “flesh out” the caricatures in your illustrations, or do you first work with the head shapes and body outlines since the character placement is as important as the caricature itself? Or does your process vary from project to project, depending on how many caricatures the project requires and how restricted your layout is? I ask because I’m trying to develop a workflow of my own, but I know that sometimes you get better results when… READ MORE
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