Illustration Guy Blog – The Chad Frye

Creative musings about creative stuff by a creative cartoonist.

Elephanting

Two posts ago, I showed you some sketches of real Russians drawn from real life while really in Russia. While I didn’t personally see any elephants while visiting that fascinating country (maybe they were hibernating for the winter – I’m not a zoologist, so it’s probably true), my mind still wandered to them one cold…
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Music Tour Poster

Two weeks ago, my pal Matt Diffee asked me to help out with a tour poster he was designing for bluegrass banjo artist Noam Pikelny. Diffee is widely known for his cartoons that appear in The New Yorker magazine. He drew the art for Noam (including the lettering), but due to some traveling he was…
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Russians!

This past January, I decided to trade the warm winter of Los Angeles for three weeks of winter in frigid Russia. I hadn’t really experienced much of a winter since the days of my youth on the east coast of the U.S. Let me tell you, Russia REALLY knows how to deliver a winter. I learned that…
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NCS Foundation Charity Auction

Over the past year, Bongo Comics’ Bill Morrison and I have been working on putting together a fundraiser for the National Cartoonists Society Foundation. This week we launched the auction on Ebay. We have 85 items featuring the work of over 70 of the nation’s top cartoonists, illustrators, and animators, most of whom donated their own…
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The Deadly Hike

Be careful out there in the cold winter everyone. Wear those coats and gloves and scarves and warm knit caps. Oh, and also remember that not all bears hibernate…
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Mistletoe

How about a little warmth during this season of cold weather? I’d like to think that real snow people might steal a kiss or two when humans aren’t looking. A little ink and gouache creation on brown paper…
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Drawn & Quoted: Life’s Challenges

“There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.” – Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)
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Warmth

Winter. Brrrr. I have lived in California for a long time now, and do NOT miss the seasons at all. Winter for me consists of the occasional day when I need to put on a sweater, and that is only if the temperatures have dropped into the low 60s or upper 50s. I never even…
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