Maxim Magazine and me

A few months ago I was contacted by Maxim Magazine to do some storyboard-style illustrations for an upcoming issue featuring a story about James Bond, agent 007. I just checked on their web site and it looks like the January issue has the feature. Tomorrow at lunch I'll take a look at one (there's a newsstand in the deli where we frequently have lunch near the studio), and see if they published my drawings. If so, I'll add them to the SAMPLES page. I feel like a kid waiting impatiently for a birthday or something.

UPDATE: Yep, they published my little Bond storyboards - page 58 in the January Maxim. I'll put the art up on the SAMPLES page as soon as time permits.

UPDATE: Did it.

Friday inspiration

At the end of the day at work today at Sony, fellow storyboard artist Dave got us all excited about painting with some examples from Craig Mullins' web site. Wow! Beautiful, loose, powerful stuff - and most done digitally without the "digital" faux-airbrush look you see so often. Really amazing, and worst of all, he makes it look effortless. There are hundreds and hundreds of paintings to look at, too.

Then I got home and another board artist friend emailed me this link to some video looking over the shoulder of comic book cover artist Adam Hughes. Again, fantastic, inspirational stuff to get the weekend going.

Andrew Loomis - Illustrator

Andrew Loomis was a phenomenal illustrator. Unfortunately, and tragically, his books are out of print. I've seen them recently go for hundreds of dollars on Ebay. I actually own Figure Drawing For All It's Worth, bought for $13.00 at a mall bookstore in Texas back in 1980 when I was an illustration student at UTA. What luck. Speaking of luck, however, many of his books, including the one mentioned above are available free online. Check it out, here's the link:

http://www.saveloomis.org/

Well worth studying, in my humble opinion.

My web site is complete - again...

Finally updated my LINKS page. Consolidated and added a few things - some articles on storyboarding for a living, etc. I also added an image in the SAMPLES area for Animatics. It's a portion of the image I submitted for the Spider-Man 2 Art Book, published earlier this year. I figure that's a safe thing to put up, as far as Sony is concerned. I can't wait to dig into the animatic sample I've got planned to put up here. Just have to find the time to actually do the work to complete it. Easier said than done...

Storyboarding info...

I get a lot of email from students who are interested in pursuing a career in storyboarding. I just found a terrific site with lots of info on the subject:
http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/mlr/archIve/VO3NO2/033003_storyboard.html

The only problem is the link they have to my site is down, got washed out with my recent clean-up of the old - seven-years old - version of this web site. It's making me think seriously about re-posting those old HTML pages as clones of my HOME page so I don't lose any prospective visitors. When I get a moment I'll do that.

UPDATE: Done! I found some code for "This page has moved" etc. and re-coded all my old pages. Now if any old, extinct pages on my site are linked - as in Google - no problem. It funnels down to my HOME page. Whew! At some point I'm going to stop all this procrastinating and actually get a drawing up here, believe me.