Career advice should always be taken with many grains of salt, especially advice from a blog. What may work for one may or may not work for you. And although I’ve been working as an illustrator in some form for the past eight or so years, I still have a lot to learn. [...]

When drawing people, it’s easy to get lost in the little details that make up the form. Unless you’re working on character design sheets which usually call for neutral poses, you want your illustration to tell a story. Shifting your focus from details to gesture will greatly improve the readability of your [...]

Drawing lines is the most fundamental method for defining objects in a two-dimensional medium. As illustrators, our daily work is so filled with lines that we easily take them for granted. It sometimes helps to go back to the basics before tackling more complex problems. So before we get into complex discussions [...]

Nick and I filmed our Super Art Fight poster jam. Two hours condensed down into seven minutes. We had a blast.

Here’s a quick demon sketch done entirely on my Nintendo DS.  The program is a homebrew application called Colors! The DS is pressure sensitive and Colors! records every brush stroke so you can output timelapse movies to upload.  Love it.