Illustration Guy Blog – The Chad Frye

Creative musings about creative stuff by a creative cartoonist.

Green Eggs & Ham

I’ve been busy this past year working on the animated series Green Eggs & Ham for Netflix over at Warner Bros. Animation. Today, Netflix made the first revelation of what the characters look like, they announced our first season cast, and they posted a short teaser! To read more information about the show,…
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Presidents’ Day

Here in the States, today is our annual Presidents’ Day holiday. We celebrate by taking the day off from work, and buying mattresses on sale. I created this illustration of Abraham Lincoln for the February issue of Clubhouse Magazine published by Focus on the Family. As with the giraffe illustration posted last week, this was done…
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Romeo & Juliet (part deux)

Yesterday I shared with you a Valentine’s Day card I made this year. Perhaps you might like to see parts of the art up close and personal, kind of like that kiss was about to be? For those curious, the art was created in mixed media fashion. Which media was mixed? It is…
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Romeo & Juliet

Happy Valentine’s Day everybody! I made my own Valentine’s card this year featuring Romeo & Juliet, but with a twist in this classic tale of love…. Lest you miss the joke, it’s important to know that this piece is firmly rooted in William Shakespeare’s tale of Romeo & Juliet – teenagers so deeply…
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His Highness

I did a couple of illustrations for the February 2019 issue of Focus on the Family’s Clubhouse Magazine that is out now. Thought I’d share one of them today. My two spot pieces were created for a page of jokes that the kids themselves sent in. This giraffe piece goes with the question, “What do…
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The Best Nine

Over on Instagram, folks have been posting the nine images people responded to the most in 2018. These were the favorite nine of my art that made the cut over there. If you are on Instagram, and didn’t know that I was, you can find me there at https://www.instagram.com/chadfrye_illustrationguy I tend to post…
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Happy New Year 2019!

Happy New Year! Here’s hoping that the new year brings joy and delight in your personal pursuit of carrots. By the way, just as a curiosity fact, this was penciled in the Los Angeles airport, and inked in the Vegas airport. (The Vegas airport slots have no power over me when I can…
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Thank You Notes

Alright – the last of the presents have been opened, and you’ve had a full day to hit all the after Christmas sales. Now is the time to start getting those thank you notes written to Aunt Belinda for the socks, Grandpa Joe for the new hammer, and Mom for the new underwear. Whomever in…
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