Chewing Pencils

Mark Anderson has made a really cool YouTube video of himself drawing one of his cartoons from start to finish. It’s fascinating to see how the whole thing comes together.
Check it out here.

There are many reasons I hate Tom Richmond.
The first is that while he is older than me, he has a full head of hair, is good looking and has a great build.
The second is he is incredibly talented and can produce work that I can only dream of.
Thirdly, he’s just completed a three part tutorial […]

One of the things that I have found to enhance my style was to do away with the concept of producing a draft version of my cartoons.
Let me say upfront that I do still mess around with different concepts on a sketch pad. But it is now a rare thing for me to produce a […]

Mark Kennedy, story board artist has a great blog called ‘Temple of the Seven Golden Camels.’ Recently he posted an entry about some photocopied sheets called ‘The Comic Strip Artist’s Kit’. He says,
“The other day I got an e-mail from Carson Van Osten, a famous Disney artist who did many Disney Comic Books and created […]

Chewing Pencils is not a “how-to-draw” site. Mainly because I don’t know how to draw…(grin).
Fortunately, there are plenty of people who do know how to draw and are happy to share their knowlege.
Von. R. Glitschka has started a blog at www.illustrationclass.com which is designed to, “Equip the creative in their pursuit of artistic excellence.” The tutorials […]