Illustration Guy Blog – The Chad Frye

Creative musings about creative stuff by a creative cartoonist.

Cactus Cowboy

Yesterday it was Father’s Day here in the States. While my pop doesn’t look like a desert hare, he did grow up in Arizona and always thought of himself as a cowboy. So, this is dedicated to my dad, Cowboy Dave – the roughest toughest hombre to work in a suit and tie in Jersey…
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Frogs Frogs Frogs

A couple of weeks ago I posted a sketch of a frog about to dive into some water. I still had froggies on the brain, so a few pages later in my sketchbook, a full fraggle of froggies filled a page. (Don’t ask. I have no idea what “full fraggle” means.)
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Adopt a T-shirt

My sister Tori and her husband Frank are interested in adopting a little girl from India to add to their family of three sons. It is a long and expensive process, so I helped out by designing a T-shirt for them with what they wanted on it that they could sell as a fundraiser. …
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Colonial Mouse

Just one week ago I was in Philadelphia for the National Cartoonists Society’s annual Reuben Awards convention. I hadn’t spent that much time in that city in years, and I loved it. I love the history in that city, and wish that more of the colonial times had been preserved there. I was disappointed that…
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Froggin’

With schools finishing for the year and the temperatures rising, the swim season has begun! Hope you get some time to enjoy the lakes, rivers, oceans, ponds, pools, and puddles out there with fun and safety! Here’s a little sketchbook doodle with a Dark Brown Prismacolor pencil portraying some summer time well spent…
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Intellectual Elephant

When I open a blank page in my sketchbook, often I don’t know what will fill that page until the pencil hits the paper. In a way, it’s a bit like improv – free association thinking once the first line is drawn. Thus was the case with today’s piece. This sketch started with some eyes,…
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Drawn & Quoted: Patience

“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.“ – Franklin P. Jones (1908-1980)
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Monstrous Birthday Card

I recently attended the birthday party of a grown-up friend of mine who is quite the collector of things. What do you get such a person who probably already has most of the cool stuff out there? You make them their own custom birthday card, with added extra credit for making it monstrous. So, here’s…
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