Tom's Mad Blog
October 11th, 2012 | Posted in Freelancing
Here are a few more of my illustrations for The Bro Code for Parents book, now available on Amazon and in your local bookstore. They are all spoofs of well-known children’s books, songs, nursery rhymes and activities like the paper dolls… all as re-envisioned by “How I Met Your Mother”‘s Barney Stinson: Clicky to embiggen… Clicky to embiggen… Clicky to embiggen… You can see more of them from my post last week. Like I said in that post, this was an interesting project as I had to mimic either the style of art or the “look” of certain things to make the parody effective. Only… READ MORE
October 10th, 2012 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
With the elections coming up, I thought I’d do a few political subjects the next few weeks. Here’s vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan. He looks like a Muppet. READ MORE
October 9th, 2012 | Posted in General
Not a true deadline today but just getting behind on a few jobs… READ MORE
October 8th, 2012 | Posted in Freelancing
Clicky to Embiggen… The October issue of Sports illustrated Kids has a tw0 page illustration of mine in it (above), depicting various athletes in Halloween costumes they might wear. The athletes: Jeremy Lin, Mark Sanchez, Tim Tebow, Michael Phelps, Anthony Davis, and Bryce Harper. Here’s the initial pencil rough (obviously text is just for layout placement): Clicky to Embiggen… They decided it was too crowded so they took out Gabby Douglas (too bad, I liked that one best), and I had to do some moving around: Clicky to Embiggen… READ MORE
October 7th, 2012 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Are you going to get the new Modbook Pro that was just announced as being available soon? A: For those who don’t know what a Modbook is, it is a Mac laptop that has been converted into a tablet computer that has a pressure-sensitive screen using Wacom technology, so you have a totally portable digital drawing/painting solution. A company called Axiotron originally produced these Modbooks, using the old white MacBooks as the base computer. The company went under and disappeared without much explanation a year or two ago. Apparently the original inventor of the technology, or one of them, is now working with a… READ MORE
October 5th, 2012 | Posted in General
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player I haven’t posted much about my gig drawing caricatures for CNN at the Democratic National Convention, mainly because the photographer who took pictures of my and promised to send them on has not followed through… I was too busy drawing to take any. However, the above video clip from the TV show Ellen shows me briefly drawing Rainer and Atticus, these two kids she sent as correspondents to the DNC. They have an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of US Presidents, and get quizzed by Anderson Cooper, Zach Braff and Michelle Obama. Towards the end they show me for a… READ MORE
October 4th, 2012 | Posted in Freelancing
I received several emails and at least one comment asking about the process involved with going something like the Minnesota Twins team illustration above, so I thought I’d share a little about my approach to such a project . . . it is a little different than a typical crowd illustration. I’m a big proponent of doing all the drawing on a given illustration as one organic piece. In other words, I don’t like doing separate caricature study “heads” and then pasting them into a layout, trying to get them to work together. That always results in a “disconnect” for me, where the illustration as… READ MORE
October 3rd, 2012 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s subject is actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who has come a long way since “3rd Rock from the Sun”. READ MORE
