More Character Types

Here are a bunch more sketches drawn from video, like the ones I showcased on my Oct. 4th entry . The ones pictured above are all of guests ...

Sketching Character Reference

I put this post together to tie in with what I'll be starting to cover in my Character Design classes at Sheridan College this week. The...

Working Out The Likeness

A comment by Denise Letter on my previous post: "Hello Peter, good drawings! Could you put some of the photos of these people up to com...

Variety Is The Key!

Back in the spring, I decided to join the National Caricaturist Network (NCN) in order to meet some of my talented colleagues online and hop...

Diversity and "Fairyations"

There was an interesting comment from Bill Drastal in regards to my last post. He says: I worked for a web company designing characters and...

Generically Speaking...

Katie Rice has just posted a very thoughtful analysis of "generic" versus "specific" female character designs over on h...

Animals as "Human Types"

Mark Mayerson has been posting scene breakdowns from Disney's "101 Dalmatians" over on his blog, and adding his analysis of s...

"Ya' Ever Pick Your Feet in Poughkeepsie?"

I actually had sketched this out in pencil a couple months ago, but decided to ink it up and post it today in honour of Gene Hackman's b...

Angry Girlfriend!

Here's a little drawing exercise I give out in my first week of teaching just to see what all of my 2nd Year students are currently capa...

Continuing On From Last Lesson...

I'm still referring back to this post that John K. had on his blog last week that I expanded upon in my last post. I think there's ...

"Bland" Be Banned!

John Kricfalusi has another provocative topic regarding "bland" character designs that can be found in this recent post . For the ...