Illustration Guy Blog – The Chad Frye

Creative musings about creative stuff by a creative cartoonist.

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

This morning, NBC’s Today Show gave a little sneak peek at a few of the floats that will be in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this year. I was surprised to learn that there will be a Zhu Zhu Pets float based on our little animated Quest for Zhu movie that is currently on DVD. I was…
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2011 Monster Month: Day 21 – Silent But Deadly

There’s nothing quite like an ocean breeze, don’t you think? And with that little joke, ladies and gentlemen, we have truly reached THE END of this year’s MONSTER MONTH selections. Thank you so much for coming each day to see what has kept me amused at my drawing desk! By the way, if…
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2011 Monster Month: Day 20 – Lumbering Beast

Every now and then I pick up my sketchbook without an inkling of what is about to come out of my hand. Often this approach is helpful to get some bad drawings out to make way for the good ones. A few weeks ago I was having one such sketch session, and the page was…
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2011 Monster Month: Day 19 – Extreme Makeover: Zombie Edition

As this year’s selection of MONSTER MONTH delectations winds its way to the end, I have one more zombie drawing for you direct from my sketchbook. It shows that even when headed out on the town to hunt for human brains on which to feast, a girl has to look her best. I just hope…
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2011 Monster Month: Day 18 – The Orange Puff

It’s bad enough when your left hand doesn’t know what your right hand is doing, but can you imagine if all your body parts had minds of their own? Only a few more days left in this year’s MONSTER MONTH! Come see what tomorrow may bring!
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2011 Monster Month: Day 17 – Zhusquashya

When you work in the world of animation, you have to be prepared to draw some pretty interesting stuff when the script calls for it. In the Zhu Zhu Pets DVD movie, The Quest for Zhu, we had to come up with a hamster based abominable snowman. Stephen Silver did some initial designs, and I…
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2011 Monster Month: Day 16 – Plan B

Ever have one of those days when nothing seems to be going right? You wake up to a jack hammer outside your home, spill coffee on your freshly pressed cape during breakfast, head on out to work and you step in a deep puddle, and then horror of horrors, the little girl you are trying…
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2011 Monster Month: Day 15 – Entrepreneurs

It’s one thing for a kid to set up a lemonade stand in her front yard to make a little money, and it’s another thing entirely when she gets some big competition that can swallow her whole. Capitalism at work. It’s a common American tale kind of like what happened to my uncle’s camera shop…
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