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Sunday Mailbag

April 24th, 2011 | Posted in Mailbag

I’m taking this Sunday off from the usual mailbag question and answer silliness. Happy Easter! READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag

April 17th, 2011 | Posted in Mailbag

Q: Do you do personal commissions, and how much would you charge? A: I get this one a lot, so every few years I repost the answer because, if anything, it’s even more accurate than it used to be. I really hate my answer to this frequent question, but realistically I have no other answer to give. No, I am very sorry to all who inquire, but I had to stop doing personal commissions a long time ago. Due to a plain old lack of physical time I have to often turn down very high paying freelance publication or advertising jobs. If I accepted personal… READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag

April 10th, 2011 | Posted in Mailbag

  Q: I’m a hard working freelance cartooning/comic making guy with a few decent clients and long studio hours. I work at an art related job during the day, and at night I do two different comics for a regular client as well as many freelance caricature commissions. I want to help boost my commissions and find some more good clients. Any advice on growing as a freelancer? A: I get a lot of “How do I break into freelancing” type questions, but not too many from people already finding work but looking for more. Honestly the advice I’d give those just getting started and… READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag

April 3rd, 2011 | Posted in Mailbag

Q: I see whenever you mention working digitally, you cite “PhotoShop” as the software you use. Why PhotoShop? Painter seems to be more of an artist-orientated program with a lot more choices for emulating natural media. Why don’t you use Painter? A: I have also heard that Painter, and least compared to previous versions of PhotoShop, was a much more artistically versatile program. I dabbled in it once and found there was a dizzying number of choices as to drawing and painting media, paper and canvas textures and ways to mimic natural media down to applying watercolor “wet” and then “drying” the watercolor whenever you… READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag

March 27th, 2011 | Posted in Mailbag

Q: I’ve read on your blog that you have several caricature booth stands in a few different amusement parks around the country. How did you get into that and how can someone apply for a job drawing caricatures? A: My first real “art” job, outside of a few commissions for friends and others, was drawing caricatures at Six Flags Great America theme park in Gurnee, IL just north of Chicago. I got the job by answering a flyer ad with the headline “Can You Draw?” that was hanging in the studio arts building at the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis while I was attending college there. It… READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag

March 20th, 2011 | Posted in Mailbag

Q: Have you ever worked on a MAD splash page (or any page for that matter) and have an accident happen to it that made it impossible to repair (for example, spilled ink all over the drawing)?¬¨‚Ć And along with that, have you ever completed a page, and when you were finished (inking, coloring, etc.) noticed that you left out a critical detail, or messed up on a very necessary feature that needed changed and would be close to impossible to just “add in”?¬¨‚Ć If anything like this were to happen, would MAD have to send out a new board to draw on or how… READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag

March 6th, 2011 | Posted in Mailbag

Q: This is a follow up question to last Sunday’s mailbag (about computer crashes). I fix Macs, and something I hear all the time from photographers is that the glass panel on the iMacs makes it tougher to accurately edit photos. ¬¨‚ĆDo you have that problem as an illustrator?¬¨‚ĆAm surprised to see you’ve gone with an iMac, so I’m wondering if the glare doesn’t bother you, or if you work in a dark room. 🙂 A: I don’t have that problem for two reasons. First, my studio lighting is of the halogen track lighting variety and the fixtures themselves are almost directly above my head.… READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag

February 27th, 2011 | Posted in Mailbag

Q: Has your PC ever gone down in the middle of a big job\tight deadline? How do you handle this? Has travel ever affected you meeting a deadline? Yes, I once had my hard drive melt on me in the middle of doing two big jobs. It went down on a Monday while I was working on a job due that day and had a MAD job to finish by Wednesday. The disaster happened to my formerly trusty Dell Workstation… here’s my blog post from that day: Well, it finally happened. This morning I am coloring happily along in PhotoShop when the blue screen of… READ MORE

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