Illustration Guy Blog – The Chad Frye

Creative musings about creative stuff by a creative cartoonist.

Buddies

If only all bears would just befriend some bees, honey acquisition might be a friendlier prospect. A little traditionally inked sketch from my sketchbook with some color added later in Photoshop.
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Declaration of Independence

Happy Independence Day!! Instead of doing some sketch of a patriot for today, I thought it might be fun to see ol’ British King George III’s reaction to learning that the Colonies decided to rebel against him on that fateful July 4 back in 1776. I’ll bet ol’ Georgie had wished the postal service had…
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Ray Harryhausen at 100

Today marks what would have been the great Ray Harryhausen’s 100th birthday. To film and animation aficionados, Ray’s name is highly praised, and rightfully so. He was a brilliant stop-motion animator who, following in the footsteps of Willis O’Brien (the man behind the original King Kong), Ray elevated the world of visual effects in live-action…
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This Little Piggy

You know all about the other little piggies. This is the one who stayed home.
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Drawn & Quoted: Father’s Day

“I’m the stuff men are made of.“ – John Wayne (1907 – 1979) Alright, Pilgrims, show some love to those dads out there today because it’s Father’s Day! This is the first Father’s Day without my pop. Got to thinking about him, and his favorite actor was John Wayne. Dad watched all his…
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Animal Crackers

I was pleased to find out recently from an article on Indiewire that a movie I worked on five years ago is finally going to be seen here in the States. Netflix has acquired distribution rights to the film Animal Crackers! Super fun story, character designs by Carter Goodrich, and an amazing cast of John…
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Clubhouse Magazine: Fancy Lad

Earlier this year, I received an assignment from Clubhouse Magazine, a magazine for kids published by Focus on the Family. They wanted a boy exercising the old school activity of writing a physical letter to help advertise Clubhouse‘s summer pen pal program for kids! So, a little watercolor paint and colored pencil later, here it is…
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The Big Thank You Search

This piece was created with thanks to all the medical workers (face mask), grocery workers (shopping cart), teachers (apple), farmers/food service workers (fork), delivery service folks (steering wheel), and science researchers (microscope) who have served our society during this coronavirus pandemic. The National Cartoonists Society put out the call back in April that cartoonists…
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