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TODAY'S FEATURED POST

Ask Me Anything

Marcos Chin

How soon is it to ask art directors to give me work after we’ve met? Don’t expect to get work on your first meeting and don’t ask them either. Developing a working relationship with art directors happens over time, like any relationship it’s about cultivating trust between two people. An example I like to use is from a lecture by SooJin Buzelli SVP, Creative Director at Strategic Insight. Using an industry party where illustrators and…

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YESTERDAY’S POST

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“The Red Path” Final Painting, and a Surprise Collaboration with My Children

Justin Gerard

September 14, 2019 - "The Red Path" By Annie Stegg Gerard Oil on Panel 18 x 24 inches Today I am pleased to share with you the follow-up post to my previous Muddycolors entry on my "Plague of Dragons" series with Annie!  The framed painting debuted (and sold) at DragonCon in Atlanta last weekend. It was based off a small pastoral sketch I drew while watching my children. I have been slowly amassing a collection of these small sketches drawn in between larger projects and while baby-sitting. They are done freehand, with no reference, and based entirely on memory.  (Okay, so the dragons *might* not have been there at the time, but I have a pretty poor memory, so who can really say?) Each of these pencil drawings is only 4 x 6 inches. They are what you might…

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