With all the work that I've been putting into our children's book class I haven't had time to write extensive blog posts. I l...

I get a lot of questions from fellow artists. Sometimes I answer them with a short message. Sometimes I send them a link to a video I alre...

Jake and I didn't have room to include the material for this new class in our upcoming "Illustrating Children's Books" ...

Pinching myself this week! I got to interview THE William Joyce along with Jake Parker about his career. William Joyce is an Emmy and Oscar ...

A few weeks ago I snuck away to CTNx in LA...this is a small portion of what it was like. I met so many amazing artists - the talent rich ...

I'm at CTNx right now in Burbank and what a weekend! Aside from total retina melt down from seeing so many of my hero's artwork a...

Creating strong light sources can add interest and drama to your images. When I critique illustration work I often notice the lack of a ...

Have you thought about jumping to lightspeed from a drawing tablet like Bamboo or Intuos to a pressure sensitive drawing monitor like Monopr...

I get asked this question so often I finally decided to do my best in answering it. There are so many factors involved from what kind of ill...

Jake Parker and I are very excited to finally announce our new class! We gave our first online children's book class about 18 months...

I've been getting lots of questions from artists who do really good work but aren't getting attention from art directors and editors...

Thinking about getting a tablet or pressure sensitive monitor like Cintiq? I go over my thoughts on what worked for me and what didn't a...

I really enjoy talking with some of the industries best artists and if you've been following my youtube channel you'll notice th...

Yes! - but a better question might be: Does Learning To Do Anything Well Take Hard Work? I'm often asked: If I take your classes at s...

When I was in school in the Mesolithic Age we actually drew on this thing called paper with devices known as pencils. Now days art students ...

I'm so excited to announce this new demo by Therese Larsson that's live in our SVS store now. She did a great job and I was so impr...

As much as I can I like to make time to doodle fun things that assignments don't have me doing to keep the skills fresh and advance my r...

Wow! I love talking to Mel - he is so positive and inspirational - I really hope you guys like listening to his words of wisdom as much as...

Most of us jump into the details too soon! Building a foundation for the drawing is counter intuitive and the most common problem I see with...

I hid the original acrylic painting of the snowmen somewhere...if you know where the clue photo's lead you can go get it for free! This...

This was an image I created for a storytelling festival but it was placed on hold until next year...such is the life of an illustrator! I...

A few weeks ago you may have noticed that on my youtube channel I started interviewing other high profile artists about their work and a spe...

Yesterday I started sketching for fun - a little line here- little line there - another character - wouldn't it look better with some va...

Jake Parker and I talk about his new BIG idea - World Art Drop Day - learn how you can participate and connect with people who appreciate...

This is a somewhat snarky post about those art/illustration students that exhibit behaviors counterproductive to improving their craft.  ...

In this video I share a few of my illustration nightmares working with clients over the years. There's no substitution for learning b...

Sometimes people crap on your art and they don't even know it. Sometimes they crap on your art and they know it but they think they...

So excited to find out this week that Gary's Place our iPad story app written by Rick Walton received the coveted "stared" re...

I've been asked quite often how I get past Artist's block - you know, that feeling you get when you don't want to start or can...