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AW Blog Chain: College Food and Beyond

Well, it’s time to for another AW Blog Chain (#5). Over at the Even in a little thing blog, Gillian Polack writes about her view on the classic English dishes that she knows being modified and changed as time progresses. I like food. Even with my tubby tummy, I am still glad that at a […]

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Day 3 - Cartoon Art Camp: Character Creation

Today’s class began with a warm up of gesture drawing of the human form. Each of the kids took turns drawing a quick gesture on the newsprint pad from the pose of one of the other students. We then sat down and I passed out a handout of photos of Live Action Superheroes. […]

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Day 2 - Cartoon Art Camp: Character Creation

Day two went as great as day one. We started the day with a warm-up focusing on the skills we learned the day before: making a character from spheres and cilenders/tubes. The rest of the day we spent learning to draw the classic heroic male from a front view.
Images coming soon.
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Day 1- Cartoon Art Camp - Character Creation (second session)

Today was the first day of Cartoon Art Camp: Character Creation at the Cartoon Art Museum. The students did a bang up job on the lessons that I provided for them, and they have a lot of talent. We were also filmed for the KGO-7 Evening News, and we all looked great.
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Look Ma, I’m was on TV!!

I was on KGO-7 News tonight with my Cartooning Camp class at the Cartoon Art Museum. Reporter Don Sanchez interviewed me and some of my students. Click here to visit a blurb with streaming video clip.
Cartooning Camp: Character Creation runs all this week.

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See me on KGO-7 news website!

I was on KGO-7 News tonight with my Cartooning Camp class at the Cartoon Art Museum. Reporter Don Sanchez interviewed me and some of my students. Click here to visit a blurb with streaming video clip.
Cartooning Camp: Character Creation runs all this week.

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BTGC: concept art: grotto and Agacon

Sorry the quality is so bad. Photo of my sketchbook in low light.

Since in the Graphic Novel we get to see Agacon other in a tailored suit, but in his wizard garb, I have to work out what it looks like. I am going for a bit of Evil Villain Bling Bling with […]

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BTGC: villain concept art.

This is from a digital photo of a pen and ink drawing and colored in photoshop. A new character that is important to the saga of Beyond the Great Chimney. Who is he…well you all will have to wait.

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