Easter used to mean candy and new dresses and egg-dying and hunts through the house for bright plastic eggs filled with hershey kisses before church. And, that’s right, it’s the part of the story where Jesus comes back to life…though celebrating this was never my top priority.
I wonder, now, what I’m supposed to […]
I thought I’d post a quick bit about drawing Bleeker.This is from today’s comic where Refurb is getting pelted with crab apples. I had a bit of trouble getting Refurb right (as you can see by the blue pencil lines all over the place) I couldn’t decide how to draw his tail and his […]
Could not come up with 3 decent color strips that reflected the diversity of South Florida by today’s deadline for the Miami Herald’s Cartoonist contest. Thus I wasted too much time and effort analyzing and researching the subject of creating comic strips and the work of Quino and other popular cartoonists for nothing. Thus […]
Recently one of you asked to see a photo of all the gear that I (Jim) take on the spot for field sketching.Here’s all you need for the watercolor pencil sketches: a few pencils, a waterpen, and a pocket drawing sketchbook. They all fit in two pockets of a jacket, so you can take them […]
This past week there was a huge storm here on the North Coast of Oregon. In the area in which I live, we were without power from Sunday through Friday evening. Needless to say, I did a lot of sketching during the storm and power outage to pass the time. Here’s one […]
How does time pass so quickly? It’s been a while since I posted anything. There are two reasons for this: 1) I couldn’t think of anything witty to write and 2) I didn’t have any new artwork to share. Ashamed at my lack of resolve to keep this blog current I gathered some art supplies […]
Last weekend, during my workshop in Eastport, I told students that sometimes you run into a scene that might be too ambitious for your energy level. At such a time, a better option than creating a finished painting is a simple sketch.
We ran into just such a situation one afternoon at the Eastport Boat […]
I found this photo a while ago… I thought I’d wait until today to post it since the date on the photo reads 7/17/08 — of course that’s 1908, a hundred years ago today. McCay is the fellow in the dapper hat. He’s sketching his son Robert at an Actor’s Benefit event.
Here’s a handy way to practice shapewelding, the linking of light-to-light shapes and dark-to-dark shapes. Next time you’re at a classical concert or a penguin convention, where everything is either black or white, bring a Marvy brush pen (or equivalent) and a sketchbook. Lightly sketch in the shapes, and then draw in the blacks as […]
It’s been a busy month or so around here between the panels, presentations, teaching and family I’ve been here there and everywhere. My son’s school puts on a Halloween carnival every year and this year I went with him. As a parent of a 10 year old that basically means I sit around […]