Clients: Go Figure.
It never fails to amaze me. You work through many revisions of a logo for a client, tweaking things to make them just right…little things: “make the color just a shade lighter” or “Can...
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A toe in the door at the MADhouse once again.
So, I got an e-mail out of the blue the other day from good ol’ MAD Magazine. It was a welcome gig as everything else I’m furiously working on won’t be actually filling my...
So…I guess I’m the Pirate Guy lately
This past month I’ve been soaking in Pirates. Sort of a stinkystew, a frothy bowl of arrgggghh. I’m not complaining but variety IS the spice of life, isn’t it. Dixie Drive has been hard...
Still Figuring It Out: Year 50.
A guy wrote to me out of the blue yesterday and asked this: “I am trying to ink my artwork. I am using Bristol Board and Higgins black ink. unfortunately, it looks streaky and...
How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall?
This past weekend my wife Frankie, daughter Bailey Bee and I headed north to New York City for the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards at Carnegie Hall where Bailey was to be honored with...
Smokin’ Pork Snails
I know this has nothing to do with illustration or art but, artists gotta eat…right? So, I agreed to join in with a group of friends, every so often to get together and drink...
Looking towards the Brightside
We had a new venture appear in town recently. My good friends Mary Murkin and Amy Barney got together and opened up the Brightside Gallery here in Asheboro. Located in the historic Ross house...
This is For The Boids!
I recently was asked to do a bird character for an on-line thing (all hush-hush, don’t you know!). My initial gut feeling was to go for a very simple “Symbol graphic” type of thing....