Here is the comp of a cover I designed for 3d LAAD Battalion’s newsletter. This issue will contain a discussion of Marine Corps values which is a favorite subject of mine. If you’re not familiar with Marine Corps values and philosophies, you can check out a lens I put together on the […]
Here are a couple of sketches from the weekend:
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When there’s no experimenting there’s no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.
— Thomas Edison
Experimentation is vital to the development […]
A buddy of mine sent me a link to the latest Marine Corps commercial. I’ve always loved Marine Corps commercials. I think it’s easy to make them great because the Marine Corps itself stands for something great.
The Marine Corps really is one of the best organizations the world has ever […]
Here is one of the designs we worked on last week. I did the pencil and ink work and Turner Hilliker did the colors and text.
We got a bit of snow yesterday so everybody was at home. My six year old insisted that I draw a picture of her in between the pictures of ninja bulldogs, and armed-to-the-teeth Marines. I think it came out well, but I consider the major accomplishment getting the human hurricane to sit still […]
Here are a couple of pictures I did for the drawing jam going on over at Drawingboard.org. Come join the fun.
With a book and a blog underway, I have become more attuned to good writing. Sculpting a lumpy mass of words into linguistic art seems to me to be a feat of magic.
Below is one of the tightest paragraphs I have come across in recent memory. I found it unexpectedly in a review […]
[B]ad drawing springs from basic faults as surely as good drawing springs from basic merits.
– Andrew Loomis
One of the most critical fundamentals of draftsmanship is perspective. You really cannot draw much without it. Even an expert understanding of anatomy will be worthless unless combined with a basic understanding of perspective. Fortunately […]
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The good men may do separately, is small compared with what they may do collectively.
— Benjamin Franklin
One of the misleading things about attributing greatness to a person is that we often give too much credit. Thomas Edison is credited […]
