by Joel | Aug 18, 2015 | blog, Comics Coast to Coast, Inspiration, podcasts, starcrossedonline
Sometime in early 2014 I stumbled upon Piper Thibodeau’s work through the @Sketch_Dailies twitter feed. I easily found my way to her enormous portfolio gallery on DeviantART. I became an instant fan. I quickly realized that Piper was posting a new piece of art...
by Joel | Dec 15, 2011 | Inspiration, original art
Success! I am happy to report that I just sent in the proceeds from my art auction to Scott Johnson of the FrogPants network. You can read about the art auction here. A big thank you out to those who joined in the bidding process on eBay, and of course to the winners...
by Joel | Dec 7, 2011 | Inspiration
Last week I heard about a fantastic show of kindness from an online community. Scott Johnson from the FrogPants network asked The Tadpool (The group of people that follow his numerous podcasts.) for a little help. Scott’s sister Wendi is pregnant and due in the...
by Joel | Nov 2, 2011 | Inspiration
I find myself drawn to artists that have a lot of energy in their sketches. Francisco Herrera is one of those artists. You can find a smattering of his work over at Herrera’s Blog In A Box but heads up, some images contain (cartoon) anatomy and nudity....
by Joel | Oct 28, 2011 | Inspiration
I’m sure anyone who is an avid webcomics reader knows about Dave Geurtin and Greg Baldwin over at CreatureBox.com. Every now and then they put together time lapse videos of their work in SketchBook Pro and it absolutely amazes me. As a creator, I totally geek...
by Joel | Oct 12, 2011 | books, Inspiration
I was hanging with fellow independent artist Paton Francis over the weekend and he loaned me this book. The Art of Animal Character Design by David Coleman. I was already familiar with Coleman’s work, but not aware of it. I had only seen it in compilation and...