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January 8th, 2008 | Posted in Freelancing
I love being a freelance illustrator. While it is challenging in many respects the work is interesting and the deadlines intense, and it’s seldom boring. I don’t punch a time clock every day, collect my paycheck every other Friday and have to conform to anyone’s routine but my own. As I have said many times, financially it is a little more exciting that it needs to be, what with the constant uncertainty about the next job, and how much income will be forthcoming in a given month (or week, or year for that matter). I have been very lucky in that I have other resources… READ MORE
January 7th, 2008 | Posted in General
Underground Atlanta Caricatures Circa 2000 I’m back from Atlanta where I just closed up my long time caricature stand at Underground Atlanta, a downtown retail/tourist complex. As I had mentioned, it was really sad because it was my very first business endeavor and it had been through a lot over the last 18 plus years. Back in 1989 The Lovely Anna and I, freshly married and she just pregnant, moved to Atlanta from St. Paul, Minnesota because I took a job with Fasen Arts Inc, as manager of their new caricature operation at Six Flags Atlanta. I was 23, just graduated from art school and… READ MORE
January 5th, 2008 | Posted in General
I had a nice, long blog post ready for today about dealing with deadbeat clients, but I have limited internet access here in Atlanta and can’t upload the article. It will have to wait until Monday. Sorry about that, folks. The mailbag question for tomorrow is controversial, however… so maybe that will make up for it. READ MORE
January 4th, 2008 | Posted in General
Deadlines conquered. Now I am off to Atlanta, Georgia on a very sad errand. After nearly 19 years I am closing up my caricature concession stand at the downtown retail complex Underground Atlanta. I’ll blog about it next week, but it was the first business I ever opened and I am sorry to see it die. …gotta catch a plane. Sorry, no time for a real blog post today. READ MORE
January 1st, 2008 | Posted in General
I revised this image from last year, and here’s the same message: Don’t start 2008 on the wrong foot. As my grandma used to say, “It’s a brand new, shiny year, and it’s going to be better than ever!”… of course grandma was a few cards short of a full deck, but her heart was in the right place. Happy New Year! READ MORE
December 29th, 2007 | Posted in General
In case you haven’t seen it via Drawn! or the Wisenhiemer Cartoonists forum, here’s a link to Gizmodo’s review of the new 12″ portable Cintiq tablet/display from Wacom. It features a video with unpacking and the creating of a color image of “Bender” from “Futurama” along with subtitles commentary. The verdict from Gizmodo is “professional artists: GET IT!”. Another independent and even more in depth review can be found at my friend Cedric Hohnstadt’s blog. Cedric got the new Cintiq and has good things to say. Both these reviews are highly useful as they are done by working artists, as opposed to being reviewed by… READ MORE
December 28th, 2007 | Posted in General
I know I’m a tough guy to get gifts for. The Lovely Anna constantly reminds me of this. She says it’s not that I don’t want or need anything, it’s just that I have this habit of buying things I want for myself… Well, I hate waiting. Lately Anna and I have been in the habit of getting something together and calling it our Christmas present to each other. This year it was a case of six bottles of Silver Oak cabernet sauvignon, 1998-2003 that had a Thomas Arvid painting reproduced on the case lid. Anna loves Arvid’s work, which is a realistic style of… READ MORE
December 27th, 2007 | Posted in General
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