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Sketch Week!- Tuesday

July 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

Sketch week continues with a quick sketch of late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmell. READ MORE

Sketch Week!- Monday

July 21st, 2008 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

Every once and a while I look over The MAD Blog and think: for an “art blog” there isn’t a whole lot of “art” here. So this week I am taking a break from writing and doing “Sketch Week”, with a new sketch every day. Some quick, some more involved… we shall see. Kicking off sketch week is a relatively quick study of Madonna. READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag

July 20th, 2008 | Posted in Mailbag

Q: I’m currently an art student in my junior year (just getting in the thick of things) and I continue to see small improvements in my rendering and modeling of the human form but still feel as though I have miles to go. So my question is was there a definitive point in your art career where the cliche’ light bulb came on and you finally felt you understood how to handle form? A: I’m still waiting for that light bulb to go off… I consider my handling of the figure mediocre at best. Complete understanding of the human form is, I think, a lifelong… READ MORE

The Dark Knight: A Review

July 19th, 2008 | Posted in General

I have to admit I was worried about this film’s chances this summer. This is a summer like no other for comic book based or flavored movies. “Iron Man”, “Indiana Jones”, “Hancock”, “The Incredible Hulk”, “Hellboy 2” and now, “The Dark Knight”. Batman has been done so often on the big screen that I was afraid it would be either the same old same old or that director Christopher Nolan would take it in such a dark direction (“dark”… I am so sick of that adjective being used and overused with regards to Batman) that the film would be overshadowed or blown away by the… READ MORE

The Dark Knight…

July 18th, 2008 | Posted in General

… I’ll write a review later. All I can say is if you think there is no way this movie could live up to the hype… think again. Heath Ledger will get an Oscar nod for his Joker… and he might even win. READ MORE

“How-To” Get Busted!

July 18th, 2008 | Posted in General

Getting Pulled Over on the Information Superhighway Dept. Image from “How to Draw Caricatures” video series by Expert Village There are a lot of “How To” videos on YouTube and around the internet, but I think you would be hard pressed to find a more worthless, and it turns out downright criminal, series than “How To Draw Caricatures” by Expert Village. Expert Village is a website that is a kind of YouTube community for how-to video clips. You can register and an “expert” or as a “filmmaker”, and then you can be put in touch with others in your area who might be interested in… READ MORE

On The Drawing Board- 7/17/08

July 17th, 2008 | Posted in On the Drawing Board

Oddly quiet on the freelance front right now, with just a few projects in the works… one that I can share at this time. Gaming Website Images- On the final images for this job right now… it’s been a long road. One multiple layered/partially animated gaming environment, game play objects and element, sixteen different player avatars in multiple poses. Hopefully this game will go online soon and I can see it all in action. Workplace poster- my usual assignment Super Capers- wrapping up the 14 ‘turnaround’ character images. School Library Journal- This was a last second job with a tight deadline that I recently completed,… READ MORE

Why Most “Fitness Centers” Suck

July 17th, 2008 | Posted in General

From an old sketch o’the week… I was reading CNN the other day and ran across this article entitled “Dealing with Jerks at your Gym”. It was an accurate portrayal of what big fitness centers are like… both in the actual problems they have and in the way things that should not be problems become so because of the stupidity and selfishness of the human race. I used to belong to a big club in Eagan, Minnesota called Lifetime Fitness. That’s where I really got back into weightlifting and I worked out there for about 5 years before I’d had enough and moved on to… READ MORE