Illustration Guy Blog – The Chad Frye

Creative musings about creative stuff by a creative cartoonist.

Scooby Doo and Guess Who?

A new Scooby Doo show began airing/streaming a few weeks ago on Boomerang – Scooby Doo and Guess Who? It features the Scooby gang with a celebrity guest or two in each episode. Why am I mentioning this? Because two years ago, I was invited to help design characters for the very first episode they were…
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Volleyball T-Shirt

Today there will be a big beach volleyball tournament in Playa del Rey, California called King of the Jungle. I designed the T-shirts for this year’s big event! One of the organizers of the tournament is a friend of mine, Paul Carrera, who works as an editor in the animation business. He asked me for…
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Drawn & Quoted: Teamwork

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results“ – Andrew Carnegie (1835 – 1919)
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Independence Day 2019

Here in the States, today is our Independence Day! In 1776, our country’s founding father’s sent a little ol’ letter off to our landlord, King George III of England, stating that we didn’t want to pay him rent anymore. Back then they “celebrated” with a war. Today, we celebrate with parades, barbecues, and fireworks with…
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My Toy Story Story

Toy Story 4 opened in theaters last weekend. The Toy Story gang and I go way back together – back to the first movie in 1995. I was a young illustrator who was not that long out of university when I got to illustrate a couple of Toy Story books that came out in conjunction…
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Exploration of Character Design

I’m sharing with you today, some actual animation character design work I created a while back. Thought it might be interesting to give you a little taste of the process. The assignment in this case was to create a little brother character for an already designed big sister. The only stipulation is that he needed…
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Dapper Duck

It’s Father’s Day here in the States today. I created this dapper duck and mouse companion a few months ago, and when it was done, it just made me think of my dad. So, I saved it just to post today. To all those sons out there, give your dad a warm hug…
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GOOOOOOOOAL!

When I was a kid, I LOVED playing soccer. I played in a league in our town, and really enjoyed the game. My love for the game changed when I aged up into the next group, and found myself to be one of the youngest players in that level, and I was paired with a…
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