My Next Big Thing
The Next Big Thing is a global blog tour, started in Australia, to showcase authors and illustrators and their current work. I was hit up by my partner in crime Wilson Williams, Jr to be a part of this blog tour. I decided to post about the kids comic I’m working on. Then after the question […]
Schoolism’s Gesture Drawing class and My thoughts
Last weekend I finished up my Gesture drawing class at Schoolism.com with Alex Woo. This is the second class I’ve taken at this site and so far I’ve found both classes to be very helpful. The first class I took at Schoolism was character design (Read my review of that class here). When I took my […]
Book Report – The Art of How to Train Your Dragon
One of the most amazing movies I’ve seen in the 3D era of animated movies has got to be How to Train Your Dragon. A big part of that for me has to be the way the animators gave life to the dragons. This is why I love these types of art books. I love […]
PDX CreativeMornings lecture with Nelson Lowory
This past Friday I attended my first CreativeMornings lecture here in Portland, Oregon at the Portland Art Museum. CreativeMornings is a free monthly lecture series for creative people. Oh by the way, they serve free breakfast, donuts! Here is a link to the lecture http://vimeo.com/44747795 The lecture I attended was by Nelson Lowory who was the […]
Book Report – Avatar: The Last Airbender (The Art of the Animated Series)
One of the first things you learn about me when you walk into my office is that I have a problem… A big problem. I love art books. So I thought it would be nice to share my thoughts on a few of my favorite books that always seem to end up on my desk […]
My Mom is named Lake County teacher of the year!
A few weeks ago, we found out that my mom had been named Lake County School district teacher of the year . The Lake County Record-bee had a nice write up about her winning in the paper, but it wasn’t as long as I thought it should be. I thought it was going to be a […]
2011 SCBWI Oregon spring conference recap
Day 1 Over this past weekend I went to my first SCBWI conference here in Portland Oregon at the Shilo Inn and met a lot of great illustrators. It was a weekend full of ups and downs. Lots of great information with a few duds thrown in as well. Friday started out promising […]
The zero2illo 12 Week Challenge: Week #1 – Choose your target audience
Well here is my week 1 assignment for the Zero2Illo’s 12 Week Challenge. I’m posting it a little late but it was done on time… Really. What is the 12 Week Challenge you say. Well its a website created by Jonathan Woodward to help aspiring illustrators get their careers started and well I’m not entirely […]
Web comic
I just find a link of a comic I made for a class I take a few years ago. Click here to take a look
Art book
I just finished my own art book and it turned out pretty good for a first try.