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We’re Closed!

With the whole world shutting down, does the Wuhan Virus really care all that much? It’s gonna do what it’s gonna do….

 

 

With everything shutting down here in the United States, and from what I hear, in other countries, too, the plight of the Griswold family from National Lampoon’s Vacation seemed like a natural fit. That poor Coronavirus has travelled all the way from Wuhan, China to come to America, only to find the country closed. Nothing is going to stop it from having some fun.

Here’s hoping it doesn’t get a BB gun at a sporting goods store and start having too much fun at our expense.

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Dapper Bear

Sometimes a bear just needs to feel dapper.

Brown paper makes anyone look dapper.
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Valentine’s 2020

They say that opposites attract, no?

Happy Valentine’s Day!

 

Wuv. Twue wuv.
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Minds. Blown.

On a recent afternoon, I visited my mother’s church. While the choir was practicing, I sat there in the pews with my sketchbook preparing to do some doodling when a few little kids saw it and wanted to look inside. After flipping through some pages, one of them said to me, “Do you know Mrs. Frye’s son?”

I looked around to see if I was getting pranked, but no, these eager young art enthusiasts were earnest in their query. I looked right back at him saying, “I AM Mrs. Frye’s son.” Their eyes got big. “Do you know……Chad?”

I chuckled a little and replied, ” I hope so. I AM Chad!”

“Chad draws Green Eggs and Ham!”

“Yes, I know,” said I. “I worked on that show.”

Minds. Blown.

Those three brothers LOVE the Green Eggs and Ham show on Netflix. Seeing my sketchbook triggered something that reminded them that they knew that Mrs. Frye’s son also liked to draw, and that he drew for their favorite show. Apparently they had no idea that there was the remote possibility that her son could be sitting right in front of them.

So, the next week I surprised them with a sketch of their own…

 

The hammier the better.

 

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Top Nine 2019

At the stroke of midnight last night, 2019 ended, and 2020 has begun. In an effort to achieve 2020 vision (pun intended), one should reflect upon the past year.

Over on Instagram, they do a thing called “Top Nine” where they show the top nine posts of the year. It was interesting to me that five of the top nine of 2019 were things I posted just in the past two months. Seems that folks can’t get enough Green Eggs & Ham, and they seemed to like lots of my doodles of other people’s characters. Thankfully, they showed some love to one of my originals (dog doodles), as well as a photo of me taken by my pal Brian Joseph Ochab to promote my upcoming appearance at the first ever Bakersfield Mouse Con (a Disney fan convention happening on January 26).

 

Click on the image to enlarge.

 

Here’s hoping more fun and exciting projects come across my plate in 2020!

And if you’d like to see my Instagram page, here’s the link: https://www.instagram.com/chadfrye_illustrationguy/

Happy New Year everybody!

 

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Klaus

I really enjoyed Netflix’s Klaus film from director Sergio Pablos. Sergio was the brilliant animator behind Disney characters Tantor the elephant in Tarzan, and Dr. Doppler in Treasure Planet. Klaus has some delightful hand-drawn animation with gorgeous lighting – every frame is a beautiful illustration.

While not exactly their Santa, the day after I saw Klaus, I felt the urge to draw a beefy Santa that is clearly influenced by theirs. Inked in my sketchbook, colored in Photoshop.

 

Nobody messes with Santa.
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Old Love

I did this little drawing of Mickey & Minnie last month for a friend. I never seem to get tired of drawing these couple of lovebirds….er, mice. . .

 

You realize, these two have been dating for 91 years. No commitment. Tsk tsk.
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Alvin, Simon, Theodore

Thought I’d do a sketch in my li’l ol’ sketchbook based on the latest big project I’ve been working on. Since this past August, I’ve been freelancing on storyboards for the Alvinnn!!! and the Chipmunks show that airs on Nickelodeon.

When I was a kid, I had the Chipmunks’ Christmas album. It’s kind of fun to get to draw them these days, especially since I can relate to Alvin in that I never did get that hula hoop either.

 

Sure, they’re cute now when they aren’t getting into trouble.
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