Involuntary Plagiarism
So, I spent yesterday morning drawing a cartoon I can’t use. Sometimes, you realize just how deep-seated your influences as an artist. Often, you have to fight them back and draw yourself back to...
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The Trickster
I finally got around to doing a new scratchboard piece! I’d had a couple of friends over for cocktails about a week ago and, while visiting my studio, one of them mentioned how much...
Starts with “F”…ends with “UCK”
I had a strange request last week. My daughter’s boyfriend’s mother, Barbara called because her stepdad had a birthday coming and, as a man who has everything, she wanted to get him something unique....
What would Dad do?
I recently found a copy of Edward S. Curtis “Visions of the First Americans” at Barnes and Noble for 4 bucks! My father had a similar collection of these photos that really grabbed his...
Comedy is tough, especially in Space.
Looking for inspiration today, I was going through my files and stumbled upon a bunch of old concepts I did for Sierra On-Line back in the 1990’s. They had a series titled “Space Quest”...
Fish Print: Pink-Bearded Buzz Bomber
Hoo-Yah! Got the color done on the new “lure” illustration. I showed you all how I was cleaning up the pencil and readying it for color, now I can show you a couple of...
Time takes it’s Toll
Many years ago in 1995, I scored my first gig as a t-shirt designer. A company out of New Orleans that still exists today (although under new ownership) called Gear Ink was looking for...
Back in the saddle…sorta
So, dealing with this herniated disk now for about 3 months has really screwed up my life. It can be completely debilitating and my desk has become something of a torture chamber BUT…Frankie got...