I'll be changing the look of this site so please bear with me if it's a little wonky over the next few days.
I also apologize for the lack of posting in the past while
"No really - do I HAVE to draw from life?"
I hear this question quite a bit from aspiring artists and students. How important is drawing from a model standing in front of you?
To understand why, you'd need to understand all of the following:
To understand why, you'd need to understand all of the following:
Frank Frazetta passes away at 82
Certainly one of the most influential artist in my life, Frank Frazetta possessed a seemingly innate ability to render creatures and characters without reference - or even practice. Stories of him completing paintings in one night that would take others months - or possibly years - are legendary. Everything Frank touched or tried his hand at was gold. He will be missed, but his legacy as the greatest fantasy painter will remain.
I made this Death Dealer study in photoshop a month or so ago. Now I guess it can serve as sort of a homage to him.
Tattoo sleeve
This is the top part of a tattoo sleeve I'm designing for a client. The tattoo is dedicated to her family, and this first part represents her mother.
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Spent the better part of Saturday at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival and had the chance to meet some great people, plus pick the brains of some illustrators I really admire. I'd like to thank Michael Cho and Cameron Stewart especially for some great insight. Great guys.
Plus I got a great sketch of Batman needing glasses from Cameron Stewart. I asked him to sketch something unusual because I figured if you're going to draw something for the 1,000th time, you might as well deviate from the norm. Plus I just dig banality for banality's sake.
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artwork of Will Ferris by Nicholas William Ferris is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Canada License.
