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May 20th, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Yesterday there was no post on The MAD Blog. I’d like to point out that in the almost 4 years of the existence of this blog that is only the second time that has happened. Worse, I wimped out on a Wednesday, so there was no “Sketch o’the Week”. My bad. Today I will make up for it by doing not just the last of my LOST themed ink wash sketches, but a step by step of the process. Above is the initial pencil sketch, Daniel Dae Kim as the ?¬?ber cheek-boned Jin Kwon. I darkened the scan so you can see it better… in… READ MORE
May 18th, 2010 | Posted in News
The second edition of the “MAD‘s Greatest Artists” series of book will be released soon, and is available for pre-order on Amazon. This time around the great Sergio Aragon?¬©s is the subject, and this volume features a selection of his best stuff from the last 50 years. Unlike “The Complete Don Martin“, MAD couldn’t do a complete collection of Sergio’s work for the magazine because: He’s still doing work for them and it wouldn’t be a complete collection anyway It would take about 20 volumes to reproduce all the work Sergio has done since his debut in MAD #76 in 1963…. approx 15,000 drawings. Regardless,… READ MORE
May 17th, 2010 | Posted in General
It’s that time of year again, where I spend several days drawing out at my local theme park while the new artists get their skills in order… and that means new samples for the walls of our booths. My updated Tiger Woods above is based on a previous Sketch o’the Week. READ MORE
May 16th, 2010 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I started to simply add this as a comment on your post, but after a second thought I felt it may be better served as a “Sunday Mailbag” question. Regarding your “Sketch O’ The Week” on Wednesday, May 12, you posted the following comments: “I debated whether to even post this caricature of LOST’s Elizabeth Mitchell as Dr. Juliet Burke, since I lost the likeness somewhere along the way between the rough sketch and the final washes. However, seeing as how I didn’t post one at all last week I’d better get something up today.” Does this happen often with your sketches? I ask… READ MORE
May 15th, 2010 | Posted in General
Today starts our 20th season drawing caricatures at Valleyfair theme park in Shakopee, MN… and it’s not snowing. READ MORE
May 14th, 2010 | Posted in News
The above sketch of Jorge Garcia as Hugo “Hurley” Reyes I did as a part of “National Doodle Day“, where lots of sketches and drawings done by various artists as well as TV and movie personalities are auctioned off to benefit Neurofibromatosis Inc., a “non-profit organization whose mission is to provide services to individuals with Neurofibromatosis (NB) and their families. NB is an unpredictable disease that cases tumors to form on your nerves, sometimes resulting in disfigurement, paralysis, deafness, blindness or cancer.”- From the Doodle Day website. The auction just went “live” yesterday and will be ending on Sunday, May 23rd (also the day the… READ MORE
May 13th, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Since I missed last week’s LOST “Sketch o’the Week” and since yesterday’s sketch of Juliet… well… sucked, I thought I’d do a second one today. Here is Nestor Carbonell as the ageless Richard (i.e. Richardo) Alpert. READ MORE
May 12th, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
I debated whether to even post this caricature of LOST’s Elizabeth Mitchell as Dr. Juliet Burke, since I lost the likeness somewhere along the way between the rough sketch and the final washes. However, seeing as how I didn’t post one at all last week I’d better get something up today. READ MORE
