Illustration Guy Blog – The Chad Frye

Creative musings about creative stuff by a creative cartoonist.

John Debney IS Iron Man

If you are a regular reader of my blog, you know that I have a great interest in film music. I grew up in a musical family, but while my siblings were off having lessons and practicing their instruments, I sat at my little drawing board practicing my skills with pencil and brush. I think…
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Captain Hook & Smee – Part 2

A couple of days ago I shared with you the step-by-steps of a little piece I did of Disney’s Captain Hook with a caricature of yours truly in the place of Hook’s first mate Mr. Smee (CLICK HERE to see that post). When I created that little watercolor sketch this past winter, it was only…
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Captain Hook & Smee – Part 1

I thought I’d share with you a couple of paintings I did this past winter. I got into a Disney’s Peter Pan mode of thinking and envisioned myself as Captain Hook’s first mate, Smee. Well, while they are technically paintings, I tend to call these “watercolor sketches”. Each of these took maybe an hour or…
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Free Comic Book Day 2010

Well, it’s almost that time once again – the first Saturday in May is FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!!! Comic shops around the country will be promoting this cultural phenomenon in publishing by GIVING AWAY comic books printed just for this occasion! I’m a big one for stuff for the kiddies. I grew up reading Disney…
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Drawn & Quoted: Chuck Norse

“I don’t initiate violence. I retaliate.” – Chuck Norris The other night as I was watching television, I grabbed my sketchbook and just started doodling. I suppose that I wasn’t really paying too much attention to what was on the screen because I started to draw Vikings. There aren’t too many Viking TV shows on…
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An apple a day….

Yeah, well, apparently that “apple a day” thing only works on doctors. Not monsters.
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…From the Flat File: 2004 – Oshikuru Comics

A few years back I was asked to draw a fake comic book cover to be used on CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men. In television, deadlines are tight, so I pretty much turned around that first image in a couple of days which is no small fete considering I wasn’t up on my…
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…From the Flat File: 1999 – Disney’s Southside

Back in 1999, I was working for Disney Feature Animation. Tarzan had recently come out to great success, and the studio was busy with more films such as Home on the Range, Atlantis, The Emperor’s New Groove, Fantasia 2000, Dinosaur, and the ultimately unproduced Wild Life. So much was going on, and it was a…
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