Tom's Mad Blog
December 8th, 2006 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
Currently still working (slowly) on a TV parody for MAD, poster job for Marlin Co., still waiting on feedback from the Ralph Nader museum job, and the cover job. Not much new to show, but here is the rough draft of the cover illustration: This cover may not happen as a final. Sometimes designer/publishers of magazines pay to develop more than one concept and offer choices to the client. We agreed on a price up to this stage, and another if we go to final. This particular client isn’t sure they want a ‘cartoon’ cover, although I intend to paint this one instead of doing… READ MORE
December 7th, 2006 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Here are the rest of the studies for that cover job. I redrew the ones of Giuliani and Clinton as I didn’t much like the first ones. This Giuliani is much better but Hillary is still off. We might see the Dreaded Deadline Demon here soon. Things are piling up. READ MORE
December 7th, 2006 | Posted in General
Previously I mentioned establishing goals when embarking on any kind of fitness program. Whether your goal is to lose weight, tone up, run marathons or get bigger and stronger, you need a plan to reach that goal. If you set your goals too high and/or expect too much from yourself at first, you will quickly lose steam and give up. Keep things realistic, but once you get into the swing of it you need to push yourself a little more each workout so you continue to progress. A well designed workout plan and approach makes all the difference. There are several things to keep in… READ MORE
December 6th, 2006 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
I kind of cheated today, as these sketches are studies for a job: It’s a possible cover of a magazine featuring a bunch of presidential hopefuls. Also included will be McCain, Gingrich, Kerry, Romney and Thompson. The presidential/political jobs are starting early this year… READ MORE
December 6th, 2006 | Posted in General
A while ago I wrote this post about an informal competition I was helping judge on the National Caricaturist’s Network forum. In brief, the participating artists were to design and illustrate a MAD Magazine cover with the subject being Sylvester Stallone‘s new movie, Rocky Balboa. The competition is over, and there were many good entries. Everybody worked hard on their pieces, and choosing a winner wasn;t easy. As part of the competition, artists had to adhere to strict deadlines for roughs, pencils, finished caricatures and final art. Prizes went to first, second and third places. First place went to Minneapolis illustrator and caricaturist Zack Wallenfang… READ MORE
December 5th, 2006 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Another Heroes actor, fly-boy Adrian Pasdar: I’m not too sure about the ‘fall finale’ episode last night. I think the show would be better served to either tie these people together in the same story (as they are doing with psychic cop, Claire and Peter) or focus episodes on only one storyline at a time. The D.L./Micha/Jessica storyline is taking screentime and going nowhere. I get the feeling they are trying to keep too many characters in play to the detriment of them all. I’d have no problem with an episode focused on only one or two heroes at a time and have no advancement… READ MORE
December 5th, 2006 | Posted in News
Here’s an interesting story from CNN about a new cartoon series Comedy Central has picked up ordered called Lil’ Bush. There are several episodes of about 5 minutes in length on YouTube, like the one linked below. Warning- it’s nasty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYeJEFa-xCA Whether you enjoy the satire or not, the most interesting thing about this show is that is started out as a series of downloadable video clips from a US wireless service called Amp’d Mobile. The company packages video entertainment programming along with it’s mobile phone service. Right now TV and film studios are trying to figure out how to make the internet and cell… READ MORE
December 4th, 2006 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Since we are talking about weightlifting, here’s a quick study of a young Arnold Schwarzenegger: READ MORE
