Illustration Guy Blog – The Chad Frye

Creative musings about creative stuff by a creative cartoonist.

Wild Thing – Part 5

Often when creating an illustration, planning is always a good idea, especially when you have a client to please. That means at minimum creating detailed thumbnails, a detailed drawing, and a color rough for the client’s approval. This also lets the artist play around with things fast and easy to find exactly what he wants…
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Wild Thing – Part 4

Today in the progression of my Where the Wild Things Are tribute painting being created for TerribleYellowEyes.com, the time has come to show you the background. In Part 3, you saw an explanation for the purple underpainting. Now I want to start laying in the actual colors of the piece. My intent with the leaves…
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Wild Thing – Part 3

If you have been following the progress of my Where the Wild Things Are tribute illustration, you would have seen the conceptual drawings in Part 1, and then the preliminary and final drawings in Part 2. Now, in Part 3, I’ll be showing you the beginning stages of my painting process. Watercolor paint is a transparent…
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Wild Thing – Part 2

Just a short progress report today on my illustration inspired by Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are children’s book. Today, you can see the preliminary and final drawings that will become a watercolor painting that I’m doing for the website TerribleYellowEyes.com. If you saw the brief concept sketches posted in Part 1, you can…
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Wild Thing – Part 1

Once in awhile, the opportunity to do a really fun, and completely unexpected, project comes along that I just have to be a part of. Sometime later this year, Maurice Sendak’s 1963 classic Caldecott winning children’s book Where the Wild Things Are will be making a splash on the big screen in a live-action movie.…
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The Fine Art of Marc Davis

On Thursday, May 7, I attended the opening of the Forest Lawn Museum’s wonderful new show of personal artwork by the great Marc Davis, one of Walt Disney’s famed Nine Old Men. Located high on a hill within the Forest Lawn Memorial Park (a cemetery for those of you not familiar with Los Angeles) in…
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Drawn & Quoted: A Good Work Ethic

“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. “ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
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Boy Character Studies

I had gotten a bit spoiled being an employed artist for three and a half steady years until finishing my work on My Friends Tigger & Pooh for Disney last October. Suddenly I found myself with a lot of time on my hands – time to finally start developing some projects that have been festering…
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