Clicky to embiggen… Off on a family trip for the holidays, so I’ll have to cheat this week and post the (very) rough sketch of a recent workplace poster job as the SotW today. I’ll post the final art tomorrow. READ MORE
As is somewhat typical over the holidays, pretty quiet on the freelance front. Very little going right now: Marlin Workplace poster Warner Bros product illustrations MAD #520 assignment (forthcoming… not sure what it is yet) That’s about it. The image above is a rare private commission done for General Mills for an executive who was either retiring or getting promoted. I used to do quite a few of these kinds of corporate commissions, including several for General Mills, but not so much anymore. Big companies would commission me to do a caricature illustration of an employee or executive who was retiring, being promoted, having a… READ MORE
I’ve been terrible about updating the other areas of my website lately (for the last two years, actually), but this weekend I finally got around to updating my Portfolio, MAD Art and especially the Me Gallery. If you have never visited the Me Gallery, you are in for a treat. For the last 13 years, I have been collecting caricatures of myself done by different caricaturists from all over the world. At the beginning most were from other members of the International Society of Caricature Artists (formerly the National Caricaturists Network) done at their annual convention. However after I started to post them on my… READ MORE
Q: Do you/ have you ever use pigment liner, brushpens, manga graphic pens, calligraphy pens with chisel nibs, any fibertip or fineliners from Stabilo, Shinhan, Sakura etc. inplace of crowquill, say for Mad assignment. If you’ve tried them how do like them. A: Yes, I do use a variety of oddball pens when I am inking jobs, particularly for MAD. I’d say 98% of my inking is accomplished with a brush or a pen nib. I use a combination of these for different line qualities and thicknesses. I’ll use a brush for the big, sweeping, bold lines. A Gillott 303 or a Hunt 102 does… READ MORE
Cover image courtesy of Doug Gilford SF Weekly’s Sherilyn Connelly revisits MAD various parodies of The Lord of the Rings, including the musical version spoof by Frank Jacobs and Mort Drucker from MAD #210. I like how she points out that, in the time it takes to watch The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, one can read the first six chapters and more of The Hobbit book on which the movie is based . . . or all the MAD parodies of Tolkien put together. All the Peter Jackson LotR film parodies were written by Desmond Devlin with art by Hermann Mejia. Some of my favorite… READ MORE
As of today all the Limited Artist Edition‘s of my book that have been ordered have shipped . . . the most recent (and last) three this morning. That is, all those that have been ordered and followed up by sending me pictures for the caricature. Three people so far have still not send me their pictures . . . you know who you are! If you want the book in time for Christmas, you are running out of time! In fact, anyone realistically wanting to order and get their copy in time for Christmas needs to order right now. International customers are out of… READ MORE
Here’s another the caricature drawings from the series of Limited Artist Edition’s of my book. The pictures I worked from are below. Many of these Artist Editions are being purchased by my fellow caricaturists, cartoonists and illustrators. This one is for cartoonist and caricaturist Bob Dornfried, and is Limited Artist Edition #47. You can check out Bob’s work on either of his two websites: Spongehead Productions (professional work) or The Creative World of CrayonMan (kid-orientated art site). For those of you sick of hearing about this Artist’s Edition thing, this will be my last post about this for the year. I may do periodic reminders… READ MORE
As promised, a sneak peek at the art for my latest MAD movie parody: Clicky to Embiggen… Clicky to Embiggen this one… Here’s a bonus, the original pencil rough for the splash page. Some elements got moved slightly here and there before the final: READ MORE
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