November 25th, 2006 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
A quick figure study out of an old copy of Sports Illustrated For a while there I was getting a lot of the sports related artwork in MAD, and I did a lot of sports art for various other clients like the Minnesota Twins, the San Fransisco Giants and a few others. I haven’t done much of that lately. Personally I think drawing athletes in action is better done from memory than from photo reference. At the very least you have to simplify the figure and boil down the action to more archtypical poses. Fast shutter pictures capture weird folds and awkward moments in movement.… READ MORE
November 25th, 2006 | Posted in It's All Geek to Me!
I’m getting imaptient and just might take the plunge in December and get a high definition DVD player for the home theater. I’ve been waiting for prices to come down, second generation hardware to come out (less bugs) and more importantly to get a grasp of who is going to win the format war. For those who aren’t AV geeks out in cyberspace, there is currently a format war raging with respect to the next generation of DVDs: high definition DVDs. Most people have heard of “high definition” TV, which is broadcast via special antennas and on cable/satellite systems. Regular TV resolution is 640 x… READ MORE
November 24th, 2006 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Here’s today’s sketch, celebrity nutcase Tom Cruise: The tabloids, magazines and press love to jump all over people like Cruise, who seem to take themselves way too seriously and offer up their opinions on anything and everything as if they don’t make their living pretending to be other people in front of a camera but are instead expert psychologists, politicians or what have you. People have been ridiculing Cruise (perhaps justly) for months and his career has even suffered as a result. However can we really blame actors like Cruise for thinking they are more important than the rest of us? Who’s really to blame?… READ MORE
November 24th, 2006 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I haven’t done one of these in a while, so here is another piece hanging on my Wall of Shame. For those who aren’t familiar with it, I have an area outside my studio where I hang framed prints of some of my MAD splash pages that have been signed by some of the subjects depicted in them. They all have a story. I previously recounted the stories of how I got the ones of the Sopranos, Two and a Half Men and of Lost. The piece for today’s Wall of Shame was for the parody of the TV show The O.C.. Unlike the previous… READ MORE
November 23rd, 2006 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Happy Thanksgiving! Of course Opsman probably doesn’t think this looks anything like a turkey…. READ MORE
November 22nd, 2006 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat. I confess to have never seen a single second of this guy’s act. I don’t know why… just can’t work up the interest. READ MORE
November 22nd, 2006 | Posted in General
As I mentioned before I’ve been watching Entourage on HBO recently. Great show… I find myself laughing out loud a lot… many time because of this man, Jeremy Piven: READ MORE
November 21st, 2006 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
As long as I’m on the subject, today’s sketch is Heroes Ali Larter– READ MORE
