Illustration Guy Blog – The Chad Frye

Creative musings about creative stuff by a creative cartoonist.

Sand People – OBX 2012

Each year I like to get away from it all to a place where I can just put my responsibilities behind me and relax. I just returned from my happy place in the Outer Banks (OBX) of North Carolina where I go during hurricane season. Mind you, I don’t go with the hopes of experiencing…
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Care Bears – Raccoon

Well, since posting the squirrels I drew for the pilot episode of The Hub channel’s new Care Bears show, I thought I’d show you another critter drawn during the devlopment of the show. I really don’t know how this raccoon evolved for his existence in Care-A-Lot after my involvement, but I thought these rough sketches…
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Care Bears – SQUIRREL!

Back in the beginning of 2011, I was asked to help out a bit with the pilot for a new Care Bears television series. The director, Jeff Gordon (no relation to the race care driver, but he can manipulate a mean pencil) was developing it at a studio called Moonscoop for broadcast on The Hub…
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…From the Flat File: 2000 – John Wayne

Recently I was going through some old digital files of mine and came across an ad I created at Disney Feature Animation for an employee screening of the classic John Wayne film The Searchers. I always really liked this caricature of Wayne and thought it deserved to get dusted off and shared here on the…
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The Space Cadet

I don’t know why. I got to doodling the other day and my mind wandered to the chiseled-chinned science fiction heroes from yesteryear. So, before you knew it, this Space Cadet came forth. It was just one of those doodles that started with the face, and without a plan in my head, it grew into…
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The Great Stan Freberg

I wanted to say a few words about the great Stan Freberg today. Do you know who he is? He has been a gold record selling comedian, cartoon voice actor, movie and television actor, radio show host, a puppeteer, an author and a pioneer of using humor in advertising. He even came up with the…
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An Exercise In Vanity

Today’s drawing is an exercise in vanity. I was thinking that it was time to try another cartoony self-portrait. I’d like to say that there was a noble reason for doing it such as it was needed for advertising an upcoming personal appearance at a children’s hospital, or perhaps it was to be used on…
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Facebook Exclusive Art

Today on the Chad Frye • Illustration Guy fan page on Facebook I launched a new special feature for those who “LIKE” the page – EXCLUSIVE ART! That’s right! Beginning today, my public Facebook fan page has a photo album that will be the exclusive home of some of my drawings. They…
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