Illustration Guy Blog – The Chad Frye

Creative musings about creative stuff by a creative cartoonist.

An Announcement Under the Bed

Hopefully you don’t store your computer under your bed, for if you do, you will find a frightening scourge of MONSTERS under there during the month of October. Yes, that’s right – Chad Frye • Illustration Guy announces that from October 1st through October 31, it will be officially MONSTER MONTH on the ‘ol blog!…
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Drawn & Quoted: Gravity

“Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly seventy-three percent of all accidents involving falling objects.” – Dave Barry This past summer I was riding the red trolley in San Diego when this lady struggled onto the train. She had a bit of a sad persona about her – everything about her drooped. That may sound…
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Giving the Hook

Last year when I was working at Disney Television Animation on My Friends Tigger & Pooh, a colleague of mine on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse asked if I’d be willing to do a drawing of Captain Hook for her. I love the design of the characters from Disney’s Peter Pan, so I thought it might be…
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Drawn & Quoted: Dancin’ Tony

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” – Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) A few months ago in a mental stupor, I was channel surfing the television. When my remote landed…
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2009 Beach Sketches IV

Yesterday I promised you the godfather of the beach. I’m a man of my word. Let’s just hope I don’t get whacked for sharing this sketch with you of the patriarch of a family that sat beside me on the beach in Kitty Hawk, NC for a week last month. No, I did not make…
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2009 Beach Sketches III

Here is the third installment of my beach sketches drawn on the sand in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina this past August. Today’s sketches are just of some of the various people that would come down to the Outer Banks for a week and play in the sand and surf. Thankfully, as they were creating sand…
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“Terrible Yellow Eyes” Art Show

For those of you who will be in the LA area this weekend, I wanted to let you know about an art show that opens on Saturday, September 19. A few months back, I shared with you here on the blog my step-by-step process in the creation of a Where the Wild Things Are (the…
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2009 Beach Sketches II

Most people often primp and prime to tuck, disguise and at times, enhance aspects of their physique to look a certain way before leaving their homes to go out. They go out of their way to acquire certain undergarment devices that lift, squish, and support the structure as if their bodies were to be seen…
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