Category: Tools and Techniques
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Art Out Loud 5
Art Out Loud 5 is the latest in a series of in-person painting and illustration technique demos held at the Society of Illustrators in New York. The sessions have been arranged by Irene Gallo, Art Director at Tor/Forge Books and the author of The Art Department blog, and noted illustrator Daniel Dos Santos. These are…
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How Not to Display Your Artwork on the Web
In the thirteen years I’ve been on the web, twelve of which I’ve spent doing professional web site design, and the last two of which have sent me to hundreds of artists’ web sites, I’ve come to the inevitable conclusion that the thing artists want most when placing their art on the web is for…
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The Center for Cartoon Studies
Cartooning and comic book creation have been working their way into the curriculums of mainstream colleges and universities, and there are now two (as far as I know) schools devoted entirely to the field. Unlike the long-established Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, a three-year school in New Jersey which concentrates on preparing…
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Suncage (Jon Hall)
I will be the first to admit that, when it comes to painting “en plein air” (outdoors), I am a fair weather painter. Days when it’s even mildly chilly find me sitting cozily in font of a computer monitor, or the in the comfort of a heated studio indulging in the convenience of photographic reference.…
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Dan Gheno
Dan Gheno is an artist and teacher who places a special emphasis on figure drawing. He teaches at The Art Students League and The National Academy School in New York and is Prefessor Emeritus, The Lyme Academy College in Old Lyme, Connecticut. I’m particularly fond of his life drawings because his approach is similar to…
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The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course
Wow! What an amazing treasure trove this is for anyone interested in animation or cartoon drawing. It should really be titled: “The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course for $8”. There is so much great stuff here that this should be a site of its own, but it’s actually part of the terrific ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project…