Continuing with my series of “Stranger Things” sketches, here is Chief Jim “Hop” Hopper as portrayed by David Harbour! Incidentally, I have not been adding my weekly sketches to the Studio Store lately… just a little to busy to follow through. I have rectified that, so this one and several other have just been added. READ MORE
As many of you know, I spend the last two weekends conducting workshops on caricature in the nearby city of Eagan, MN. Both workshops started with a Friday night welcome party at my house and a look at my studio, and continued at the host hotel on Saturday and Sunday. Each workshop had 13 students. Here’s a brief synopsis of what we did: Friday night: The entire group came over to Casa del Richmond for some of The Lovely Anna’s culinary goodies, a few adult beverages, a goody bag full of stuff, and a tour of the studio. I showed the group the process I… READ MORE
Advance copies of Goodnight Batcave arrrived Friday sporting a fancy, glossy hardcover! Works like a charm! Available on October 25th where ever fine (and this one) books are sold. READ MORE
Q: Are you going to do more workshops in the future? A: Yes, most definitely. Except this time I am taking my show on the road. in 2017 I am going to do several workshops in different cities around the country, and possibly even overseas. I am going to announce the dates of my first traveling workshop next week, as soon as I have this second one in the books. It will be in January sometime, and the location… Orlando, Florida! Check the blog next week for more details. Thanks to A Lot of People for the question. If you have a question you want… READ MORE
Starts tonight through the weekend! I’ll have a complete wrap up of the workshops next week!! READ MORE
Back in 2006 a company that wanted to market a series of drinking mugs featuring the caricatured heads of celebrity athletes called “Mugheads” called me to do some caricatures for some prototypes. The idea was they would pitch these to pro sports teams as stadium giveaways, etc. The product never got off the ground but they did produce a couple of prototype “mugheads”, including one of Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb. I discovered early that it was going to be tough to do these designs because they 1) had to conform to a general mug shape in order to work with the product and 2)… READ MORE
Here’s another “Stranger Things” sketch, Finn Wolfhard as Mike! READ MORE
Missed Monday MADness yesterday after my busy workshop weekend. Here’s a Tuesday edition… a look back at the original pencil roughs of MAD‘s parody of the film “Watchmen”, written by Desmond Devlin from MAD #499, April 2009. Here’s the final art. The last panel was rethought from the original roughs: READ MORE
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