Illustration Guy Blog – The Chad Frye

Creative musings about creative stuff by a creative cartoonist.

2018 Monster Month: Top Chef

Trolls aren’t so bad. Sure, they may eat you, but they like tasty cuisine just as much as the next foodie out there. Trolls will prepare their meals with the best seasonings they can grow under billy goat gruff bridges where they hang out, and are sure to cook at just the right temperature for…
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2018 Monster Month: Alienation

Another monster has invaded my sketchbook, probing its pages for cattle to mutilate. Next it’ll start drawing crop circles on the blank pages. Good times.
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2018 Monster Month: Pig Nosed People Eater

Just doodling around the other day, and this creature spilled forth. Things took an ugly turn when I decided what to have him chomping on. Truly monstrous.
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2018 Monster Month: Blue Frankie

I hate to disappoint, but I decided that this year I won’t be doing my usual Monster Month series through the month of October. Typically I post a new monster drawing each weekday during this month, but things have been just a little too busy with some freelance projects, and being full-time on a new…
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Sam Elliott

Doodled up a little bit of cowboy actor Sam Elliott. You’ve seen him in Tombstone, The Big Lebowski, Netflix’s The Ranch, and even as a voice of a T-Rex in The Good Dinosaur that was really a cowboy role. He’s just such a fun actor to see on the screen no matter what he’s in.…
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Bunny and Bear

Had some time between storyboards the other day to just let my mind and hand wander. This was the result.
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September 11

On this morning in 2001, I was getting ready for the day. I turned on the television that morning to watch the news with the volume off while I was trying to call my father at his workplace. It was my regular day of the week to do so. I saw images of the…
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Jack Out of the Box

I’m still playing around with some digital brushes in Photoshop, and recently worked up this painted sketch with a gouache look. It’s kind of fun trying to play around with broad strokes and tones rather than the endless noodling I do when I paint traditionally. Also, painting digitally allows me create subtle color builds MUCH…
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