Video: How a Book Cover is Designed
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Throw Your Work Away!
We have a tendency to keep things in our pictures because we’re proud of them, we worked hard on...
Color Theory Video 5 “The Dark Side of the Form”
Hello all, it’s getting close to the end of the year, and how! This one needs to be quietly...
EVERY GIG A OPPORTUNITY Part 1: Young and Restless
It’s super easy to be edgy about the work you do, to look down your snout at some...
Working with Models for Sculpture, Part II
Happy Thanksgiving! Among the many things we celebrate today, one thing we are always grateful for...
30 Minute Illustration School
In an effort to provide a bit of low-cost guidance for those with a short attention span, I...
Painting Captain America: My Wet Media Process
My last article here was on big picture thoughts from creating the recently released Marvel...
Best Of: Visual Hierarchy
I’m not an illustrator. I don’t paint. When I draw, I generally draw logos and type....
Toned Paper and Painting
When I was in art school we were given an assignment to draw on sheets of brown paper using only white chalk and charcoal. I’m talking like cheap-ass grocery bags, burned sticks of wood, and chunks of the Dover coast. I had no idea what the point was. Now I do.
This was back before plastic grocery bags were invented… which were later made illegal, so we’d switch to reusable (great!), which then became illegal…
Breaking Down Color Episode 1
Color is a beast of a subject and my favorite place play. I could go long winded here and kill...
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