Better late than never today… this week’s SotW is of the late punk rock legend Joey Ramone! As always, the original is available in the Studio Store. READ MORE
It’s hard to believe but I just received the shipment of the eighth printing of The Mad Art of Caricature since its release in November of 2011. That sounds more impressive than it actually is, since the largest print order I’ve ever placed was 4,000 copies. Storage with my distributor is limited so I can’t order any more than that at a time, so I’ve done many smaller runs rather than fewer big ones. With this printing (3,500 copies this time), a total of 28,000 copies of this book will exist on this planet. Placed end to end they would stretch just over 5 miles.… READ MORE
Here’s a look at some of the character work I did for the “MAD” show’s segment “Malcolm in the Middle Earth”, with the video clip at the bottom: READ MORE
Q: Sometimes I get requests to draw fat women who had wanted to look slim on drawings. More often than not, I offered to draw only their heads and not the body unless they accept what I see, meaning I had to take the risk for no payment. How did you deal with such request in your line of work? A: I assume you mean when drawing live caricatures, since this rarely comes up when doing publication work. With studio work, meaning a commission where the subject is paying for the art, I do not honor such requests. I draw the subject as I see… READ MORE
Looks like it’s that time again… no questions to answer in the mailbag. I actually only have to post this maybe once or twice a year, and only because many of the questions I get are repeats of ones I have answered more than once in the past (I’ve had this feature running for over ten years, and this is the 530th “mailbag” post) or of the “please show me how to crosshatch” variety that are impossible to answer in a few paragraphs. It’s entirely possible that people have run out of questions. There are only so many questions people might have about freelancing, illustration,… READ MORE
Both of my early 2018 workshops in L.A. and Atlanta are completely sold out, but if you want to be added to the wait list for either let me know. I often get at least one person who backs out, and those spots are offered to the first person on the wait list and on down. There are still some spaces available in my Toronto workshop in June and the one in Switzerland in August. I’m working on adding some additional dates and locations in 2018. Still considering Dallas, Portland, Washington DC, Chicago and others. Keep checking my workshop page for more details! READ MORE
Superman and the Miserable, Horrible, No Good, Really Bad Day is officially released! Here is a picture of it in the wild, in a bookstore in Spokane: It’s available in fine (and dodgy) bookstores and comic book shops everywhere, on Amazon.com and other online retailers, and signed copies or ones with a sketch of the Man of Steel himself are available in the Studio Store. Yes, it is quite appropriate for young kids, while adults will get some of the more subtle humor as well… kind of like Sesame Street. Here’s a couple of other sneak peek images from the book : READ MORE
I’m still traveling abroad so this week’s Sketch o’the Week are some very quick digital sketches of three of the stars of the TV show “Better Call Saul”: Bob Odenkirk, Rhea Seehorn and Michael Mando. These were done as class warmups at one of my workshops. What I do is ask the class for a show or film as our warm up subject, then I do a websearch for some of the actors on the show and we do quick warmup drawings, so no one knows what’s coming. 5-10 minutes max. I’ve included the references we drew from: READ MORE
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