Here’s a few sneak peeks at some of the panels from the other parody I drew in MAD #9, “Behind the Scenes of Dizzy’s The Lion King”. With all the attention the Tarantino stuff has gotten this is getting overlooked a little, but it was a very funny script from comedian Akilah Hughes. Now go out and buy a copy, clod! READ MORE
Q: You’ve talked about drawing live and why you don’t start with face shape and instead begin with the details. You mentioned the thrill of working without a safety net by not sketching anything first and just diving in. With that in mind, if you find you’ve goofed up… then what? Just thinking about that situation gives me anxiety. Have you ever scratched a live drawing and started over? I assume it’s a similar rush one gets doing stand up comedy, where it’s just you and your wits to see how you can get yourself out of a jam. A: Live caricature is not for the faint… READ MORE
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
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