Illustration Guy Blog – The Chad Frye

Creative musings about creative stuff by a creative cartoonist.

2009 Beach Sketches I

During much of August, I spent some quality time taking in the beauty of God’s creation in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina – the sun, the sand, the surf, and the various shapes, sizes and personalities of humanity. Often in walking down to the beach, I would take along my sketchbook wondering who might be my…
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Airport Sketches

Welcome back to the blog! Where’ve you been? I know, I know. It’s ME – not you. I have been unavailable to post images here for the past month due to being out of town without a scanner. But it doesn’t mean that I’ve been sitting on my thumbs. In fact, the pages of my…
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Gone Fishin’

I just wanted to apologize to all those of you who follow my blog. I haven’t had anything new and exciting posted here in a few weeks, and wanted to let you know it will be a little while longer before I return from a very welcome vacation. If I could pack my scanner with…
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San Diego Comic Con 2009

This year the San Diego Comic Con hit its 40th anniversary. This is the comic book fan convention that started them all, and continues to set the standard – well, if the standard you are looking for is an all-media convention. This con’s focus is primarily on movies and television for which the filmmakers and…
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25 Years of Usagi Yojimbo

My friend, Stan Sakai, has been drawing his terrific comic book Usagi Yojimbo for the past twenty five years. Two weeks ago, the San Diego Comic Con paid tribute to Stan and his creation with a panel and by featuring it in this year’s program book. I belong to an LA based professional comics writer…
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The “Haiku Ewe” Project: FRIDAY

Welcome to the last of my “Haiku Ewe” posts. If you haven’t been following along, “Haiku Ewe” is a web comic by Big Al the gal on GoComics.com. She asked me to fill in for a week when she injured her drawing hand. It was fun illustrating Al’s sweet, little lamb by putting her into…
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The “Haiku Ewe” Project: THURSDAY

Welcome to the fourth in my 5-part series of the step-by-step creation of my week’s worth of “Haiku Ewe” comics seen on GoComics.com last week. Thursday’s comic once again pits our little lamb in mortal danger – this time at the hands of a conniving wolf. While that is indeed scary, what might be scarier…
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The “Haiku Ewe” Project: WEDNESDAY

Below is the third of my step-by-step of the process in doing the “Haiku Ewe” comic illustrations that appeared on GoComics.com the week of July 20-24. This particular comic was there just one week ago today. Today’s comic continues the week long theme of the lamb being in mortal danger, but unlike the other days,…
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