This week’s sketch is another from my studies for the Secret Agent Man print (limited edition prints still available!)- this one is the final pencil sketch of Sean Connery. READ MORE
As promised, a look at the art for “Parks and Regurgitation” in MAD #511. Click for a closer look… Pencil Roughs- Click for a closer look… I have to say that Nick Offerman, who plays Ron Swanson in the show, might be my favorite person to caricature ever for MAD… and that is saying a lot. READ MORE
On news stands tomorrow and in comic book shops today: MAD # 511 (October 2011) Cover (Charles Akins) The Fundalini Pages (Matt Lassem, Hermann Mejia, John Caldwell, Kenny Keil, Kit Lively, Marc Hempel, Glen LeLievre, Pater Bagge, Ward Sutton, Scott Nickel, Sam Viviano, Garth Gerhart) Parks and Regurgitation (Arnie Kogen, Tom Richmond) Dictators Next to be Overthrown (Jeff Kruse, Tom Bunk) 12 Good Things about Y0ur Smoking Addiction (Teresa Burns Parkhurst) Spy vs. Spy 50th Anniversary Poster (Various) Overheard at the Kardashian Wedding (Jacob Lambert and Jeff Kruse, Rick Tulka, Colors: Tom Luth) Planet TAD!!!!! (Tim Carvell, Brian Durniak) A MAD Look At Lady Gaga… READ MORE
Q: ¬¨‚ĆI have been looking to your drawings for inspiration, and I have realized that they look very clean and flawless. So my question is do you find yourself making a lot of mistakes when drawing or even sketching? How often do you erase, if at all? What is your tool of choice for erasing? (because I can seriously never tell so it must be damn good). A: Of course I make a lot of mistakes when I sketch, and I do plenty of erasing. The sketches I post for the “Sketch o’the Week” are usually ones I have “tightened up” a bit, meaning I… READ MORE
Click for a closer look… Each Friday for the next several weeks I will post the opening pages to a chapter of my book, The Mad Art of Caricature!, along with a description of the chapter’s contents. Since I’ve already done this for chapters one , two, and nine, that leaves five more chapters after this week, which should be about right for the arrival of the printed books on my doorstep. Chapter Three is about head shapes, which I consider to be the most important aspect of doing caricature. In it I discuss why they are so important, techniques to “see” them and to… READ MORE
This year is the 50th anniversary of Spy vs. Spy, and MAD has been busy with the celebrations. One of the cooler things they did was to produce a bunch of prototype, unpainted Spy figures and send them out to a variety of artists and sculptors, inviting them to make their own custom Spy. They had a glass case full of the resulting figures at Comic-Con last month, and have been busy posting images of a new one every day on their shiny new blog, The Idiotical. The one above was done by my friend, fellow NCS member and the creator of Foxtrot, Bill Amend.… READ MORE
I did this sketch of Malcolm in the Middle actor Erik Per Sullivan for one of the chapters in my book, The Mad Art of Caricature!. The chapter in question is focused on drawing and caricaturing individual features. Can you guess which feature this one was an example of? 😉 READ MORE
Congratulations to Minnesota Twins slugger Jim Thome for bashing home run number 600 last night! He’s one of only eight ballplayers to accomplish this feat in Major League Baseball. At 40 he’s the oldest player to do it but reached the milestone in one of the fewest at-bat totals. Thome spent most of his career playing against the Twins when with Cleveland and Chicago, but tried as I might I just couldn’t hate the guy. He’s one of the true gentlemen of the game and a throwback to the old ballplayer who played for the love of the game and not money. He’s been one… READ MORE
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