Nathan Fowkes: Making Your Freelance Career Bulletproof

An Afternoon With Legendary Illustrator Jack Davis

Sad to hear the news about Jack Davis. Such an amazing talent.


// Mad Magazine And EC Comics Artist Jack Davis Dies At 91



An Afternoon With Jack Davis





Jack Davis Interview for Book "Drawing American Pop Culture"





Jack Davis Commercials

William Stout Interview

BBC Documentary: In Search of Steve Ditko (Co-Creator of Spider-Man)

Steve Ditko is an American comic book artist and writer best known as the artist and co-creator, with Stan Lee, of the Marvel Comics superhero Spider-Man. Below is the BBC documentary In Search of Steve Ditko. It highlights Ditko's influence and contributions to the comic book industry.

Also for more history and backstory check out DIAL B for BLOG's two part feature on Steve Ditko.

Part One /  If This Be My Ditko

Part Two / Doorway To The Unknown 













In Search of Steve Ditko (Part 1 of 7)

BBC Series: The Secret of Drawing

'This four part series, presented by Andrew Graham-Dixon, explores how drawing has shaped our lives. Join him to discover the history of drawing and its relevance to the modern world.' via BBC

View Episodes 1-4 here

// The Secret of Drawing

1: The Line of Enquiry
2: Storylines
3: All in the Mind
4: Drawing by Design

L' ONDÉE (RAINS) - Short Film by David Coquard-Dassault

// Rains: Post-Sundance interview with NFB Animator David Coquard-Dassault




Directed by: David COQUARD-DASSAULT
Production: Folimage/ ONF-NFB/ Canal+
Music: Christophe HÉRAL
Year of production: 2008

Interview with Concept Artist Iain McCaig

Great interview with concept artist and designer Iain McCaig. Thanks to Bobby Chui for posting it!

Cyrano the Elephant in "Trunk Troubles"

Animated by Aaron Blaise over the course of 8 days using a Cintiq and TVPaint!

Lecture: Creature Designer Terryl Whitlatch

John Lounsbery Animation Drawings from Lady and the Tramp

Beautiful set of drawings by John Lounsbery (one of the nine old men) from Disney's Lady and the Tramp. They're up for sale today here: Heritage Auctions

Your Creative Bank Account and Drawing a Drone Racer

Here's a great vid by Jake Parker. He packs it full of advice on drawing, inspiration and creativity. Gold!

Interview with Artst Glenn Vilppu

SPARKBOOK Review

I just received my copy of  SPARKBOOK by Cedric Honstadt! It's a fantastic book chock full of excellent drawing exercises that will help flex and stretch your drawing skills. Cedric also includes some great content about design, acting, character development, and storytelling. I highly recommend getting yourself a copy. For more info check the link below!

// SPARKBOOK

Interview With Story Artist And Director Louie del Carmen

Louie del Carmen is a story artist, illustrator and director currently at Dreamwork Animation. For more info about Louie check out his blog and twitter page. And thanks to Bobby Chiu for setting up this interview!





















Also check out this CTN story lecture with Louie and some other talented artists:

// Act 1: The Story Begins

How to Draw A Gesture

Also check out these great links for more figure references:

// Proko 

// PIXELovely - Figure & Gesture Drawing
Awesome website with free figure drawing tools

// Dynamic Poses via 8fd Pinterest (giant collection of figure poses)

Head Prespective Reference

Here are some useful head perspective reference sheets. I'll be adding more to this post later.

Iain McCaig Drawing Demo

This is a great live drawing demo with concept artist Iain McCaig.

'Acclaimed concept designer Iain McCaig transforms an unsuspecting fan into a Sith Lord at Gnomon Workshop Live 2008 in Hollywood, CA. Ian's credits include Star Wars Episodes 1, 2 and 3, The Avengers, John Carter, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and more.'




Thanks Jes Tuya for the heads up!

Bill Plympton on Creativity

I this short interview Bill Plympton discusses the creative process, having the mind of a child and drawing for 12 hours a day.