I recently partnered with Digital Tutors a Pluralsight company to come up with a course about storyboarding in illustrator and Indesign. It’s very much my own process and since I’m...
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I the spring I did an illustration for apple Magazine an article on the brain and how we naturally prune our neural connections as we grow older. It’s really quite interesting....
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Being an Illustrator in Calgary Years ago, when my wife Sandra and I had our first child, we decided we wanted our kids to grow up near their Grandparents and...
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My favourite client is my wife Sandra, and she almost never knows what she wants. I mean, she knows the effect that she wants, or she’s got a big idea,...
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I grew up in the roughest parts of my city. Sometime I had a hard time – I got into fights, hung out with the tough kids and the drug...
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Portrait illustration is by far my favourite type of illustration, which is why I specialize in it here at my studio. Why? Because you get a glimpse into someones soul...
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Do you thrive in Chaos? Or, do you like your creative endeavors to be orderly? I have tried many tools to bring the balance between order and chaos into my...
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Are you exploring enought books? That’s the secret sauce. If you want to have a great illustration career - read more books. I figured that out, when, after researching all...
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Last year, as I was touring the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo, I was introduced to another artist by a mutual friend. As we shook hands, my friend introduced this...
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Winners were announced privately in April, magazines came out in May, and now it’s June and I am finally announcing this years awards on my website. Better late than never!...
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Art Directors know that the saying “an image is worth a thousand words” is a major understatement. It’s only a thousand to you, in the moment you’re looking at it....
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I believe any illustrator’s style evolves over time, whether they move into realism, trendy fashion or cartoons. For me the evolution came from pain - pain in my hands that...
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You have one job - right now - so do it. When the client has called, and the negotiation is over, you have one job! It’s not an easy one...
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