Illustration Guy Blog – The Chad Frye

Creative musings about creative stuff by a creative cartoonist.

Frankenstein’s Monster: Part 8 – It’s ALIVE!!!!!

Well, not literally alive, but it IS done! The Frankenlisa illustration has reached it’s conclusion, and it’s time for the grand unveiling. First, I thought it would be good to repost the original daVinci painting that inspired it all. It certainly has inspired many variations over the years. I just thought it would be the…
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Frankenstein’s Monster: Part 7 – Color Penciling the Monster

Well, we are nearing the end of the Frankenstein saga. This will mark the last of the autopsy-like dissection of the process leading to the creation of my monster. All the painting has been done, and now for the finishing step of using colored pencils. My tools of choice happen to be pretty common in…
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Frankenstein’s Monster: Part 6 – Painting Frankie (Step B)

Welcome back to another fun-filled moment in the birthing process of Frankie. For those of you who have been following along through the past five and a half reports, you will be glad to know that this post will wrap up the painting portion of our program. Lucy, there’s a lot of ‘splainin’ to do,…
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Frankenstein’s Monster: Part 5.5 – The Work Environment

Boy, it’s been a few days since I last posted about the Frankenstein piece. I’ve been able to jump back into it this weekend. Most of today was spent finishing the painting part of it. I’ll be collecting my thoughts on that along with the images for a Monday morning post. However, to tide you…
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Frankenstein’s Monster: Part 5 – Painting Frankie (Step A)

So, now that the background is somewhat done, the moment I’ve been waiting for is here, and ding dong – the whole thing has become pretty intimidating! It’s time to tackle the figure. So much has gone into the whole piece that I don’t wanna screw it up! Once again, I don’t wish to start with…
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National Cartoonists Society Jury Duty

Some of you may have already seen this posting as it was up for a few hours last week. My apologies for the repeat. I thought I had clearance to let you all read about this, but as it turned out, we needed to make sure the nominees had all been notified before I told…
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Frankenstein’s Monster: Part 4 – Painting the Background

In the last Frankenstein post, you read about the final drawing being applied to the paper. Naturally, the next step is the painting. In this case, it is to be a watercolor painting. Watercolor is not necessarily a medium to use if you want to have absolute control over where the paint goes and how…
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Drawn & Quoted: Overweight America

“For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn’t that make overweight the average then?” – Jay Leno I was thumbing through my sketchbook the other day, and came across this drawing. Thought it deserved to be let out for some air. It isn’t based on some real-life scene that I…
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