December 31st, 2019 | Posted in General
I’m not sure if I am glad 2019 is over because a lot of good things happened for me professionally in 2019, but a lot of the bad stuff that happened is going to continue to impact things in 2020. The Good Stuff! I made a living as a freelancer (always #1) My work appeared in every issue of MAD Magazine (10 years straight) Spoke/taught at NCSFest in Huntington Beach, CA Taught workshops all over including Amsterdam and Switzerland Was a guest speaker at Eurocature 2019 in Vienna, Austria The whole Once Upon a Time in Hollywood/Tarantino thing Started doing work for the UK’s VIZ… READ MORE
December 28th, 2019 | Posted in General
I’m seriously considering doing a new kind of workshop here in Minnesota the last weekend of March (the 28th and 29th). This new workshop would focus on caricature illustration, where I would teach concept, composition, inking and watercolor and digital coloring, and each student would be doing an illustration “assignment” from start to finish like a freelance job. We could have three different possible assignments: a full page feature magazine illustration; a more kids orientated sports illustration, or a one page MAD Magazine like comic. I actually did something similar to this when I did my first couple of workshops here in MN before switching… READ MORE
December 27th, 2019 | Posted in General
Here’s a bunch of the commissions I did for the 2nd annual “Holiday Caricaturapalooza”. You won’t recognize anyone here (except Neil Degrasse Tyson and Alfred) as they are almost all caricatures done from photos of those who order the commissions. There are some fun images though. All done with brush/calligraphy pens and Copic markers, with the occasional touches of white out and colored pencil: I forgot to scan a couple of them. READ MORE
December 25th, 2019 | Posted in General
Healthy, happiness, peace and prosperity to all… READ MORE
December 24th, 2019 | Posted in General
… every year. READ MORE
December 13th, 2019 | Posted in General
One more workshop warmup for the week: Arnold Schwarzenegger! READ MORE
December 12th, 2019 | Posted in General
Yet another warmup celebrity sketch from my workshop this past weekend: Gordon Ramsey! A spot in one of my workshops makes a great Christmas gift to that special caricaturist in your life. Not many left right now though… only one in NYC, three in Dublin and quite a few left in Vienna. I’ll be adding a few more U.S. workshops in the last quarter of 2020 sometime after the New Year. READ MORE
December 10th, 2019 | Posted in General
I wrapped up my Orlando workshop Sunday but I’m still here visiting with my youngest daughter The Effervescent Gabrielle for her birthday, so the rest of the week I’ll be posting the ‘warm up’ sketches the class and I did over the weekend. Here’s one of them… disgraced comedy legend Bill Cosby. These “workshop warmups” are 3 or 4 sketches we do in the morning to get loose for the rest of the day. Someone in the class suggests a subject, I do an image search for a good reference, and then project the image up on the big screen with a blank area to… READ MORE
