First: These Santa images will be part of our homework optional assignments in our "Painting Color & Light" class. We'll...

Build the app & submit to the app stores. So much has happened in the last few weeks! We finished our app - submitted it to apple - go...

I'm very excited to announce our SVS Painting Color & Light class that is now available on our website . I'm not sure what I lik...

This was one of my studies for our upcoming character design class this Saturday - it's been a blast preparing for it. I love taking tim...

Add sound effects to your story app. This was one of the funnest parts of the creation process. I was amazed at how much sound can "...

As an added bonus we've decided to rope in Disney artist Shane Lewis to start our video series off right. Shane is going to record a ...

I've wanted to make this video for a while - the idea of having a personal project in the works at all times during an artist's care...

Record the voice narration. On my last app "I Eat You" I used the iPad app "Tiny Vox" to record my own voice - making...

I'm very excited to announce our newest SVS class - "Breathing Life Into Your Characters". Like our Painting in Photoshop Po...

Finish the artwork. (for earlier steps keep scrolling down) Shoooeeeee - that took a while! I'm not going to even try to expla...

We just wrapped up the most amazing day of learning how to paint in photoshop I've ever been involved in! The video recordings are fi...

I have been blessed with many connections in the illustration world and many more since I started this blog a few years back and those c...

As a special bonus Jake Parker will add his tips and tricks on how he uses Photoshop to our upcoming power day! This was never part of th...

Just finished a few color studies in preparation to our Photoshop Power Day coming up in a few weeks. I like having everything ready to...

This is the most important message I have for up and coming illustrators and those that are still in school! This is the advice I would wan...

I'm very happy to announce TWO things this morning. The launch of Ann Cannon's Folio Academy video - "How To Write A Children...

  My new book Skeleton For Dinner by Margery Cuyler takes place in a graveyard. So I put tomb stones on most of the pages of art...a...

I've been teaching on and off now for the past 20 plus years. At first I was petrified. In fact I really feel sorry for the first...

 Adding color using Photoshop! Making progress! I have the opening screen finished! I'm now adding color to all the pages. This st...

  I'm so excited to announce our Painting in Photoshop Power Day! On Saturday, October 26, 2013 we will be offering an all day ...

Step 4 - Work on character sketches, Interior sketches, and animations. If you're new to my blog you might want to scroll down to s...