Illustration Guy Blog – The Chad Frye

Creative musings about creative stuff by a creative cartoonist.

Norm of the North

Today a new animated film is being released in theaters across the United States called Norm of the North. I was one of the character designers. I worked for several months on Norm back in 2014. At that time, Stephen Silver and I designed most of the main characters and some incidentals, while some…
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Merry Christmas 2015

This past year all my work came as freelance. Sometimes this can be a scary thing because you don’t know when the next job will be, but God has been good in keeping me quite busy. Unfortunately, as the holidays rolled around, I found myself unable to find the time to make a Christmas card…
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Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving is all fun and games for everyone, except for those being eaten. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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Christmas Cornelius

Thought I’d share with you a super cartoony illustration I put together recently for the LA Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society (NCS LA). This piece was used on the invitations for the NCS LA’s upcoming holiday party on December 12. Why an angel bear? Well, as mentioned once before here on the ol’ blog, Cornelius…
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Sketch Challenge 5 – Nevermore

Well, here it is. The grand finale of the week long Sketch Challenge between me and my friend Andy Heckathorne. Since tomorrow is Halloween, and this being the last day of the challenge, it seemed appropriate to break out the ink in grand style with a caricature portrait of the master of the scary short…
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Sketch Challenge 4 – Cat Zap

Day four in this week’s Sketch Challenge brings with it the wrath and menace of a crazed cat behind the controls of a mouse zapping spaceship, enough to send a chill through the spine of Buck Rogers himself! Hopefully you are also following the sketch posts this week by my challenger Andy Heckathorne,…
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Sketch Challenge 3 – The Weinie Roast

Day three has arrived of the sketch duel between me and my good friend Andy Heckathorne. My friendship with Andy goes back to my days in college where we took many art classes together by day, and worked on the school newspaper together by night. It is because of this close friendship that I won’t…
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Sketch Challenge 2 – The Bear Necessity

Okay, okay. So yesterday we started off with a bang (so to speak) with some cowboys in this week’s Sketch Challenge between me and my buddy, Andy Heckathorne. Andy drew me getting punched out complete with a black eye (which you can see by clicking here). Today, I return the favor by sending him a bear that…
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