http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog Illustration Sketchblog of Brad Fitzpatrick Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:47:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now that the open water fishing season has been extended from October 1st to the end of December here in Central Maine, I’ve been taking advantage of it.  I haven’t fished a whole lot this summer but I’m making up for it now. I’ve never fished in October before but ... http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1984/maine-bass-fishing-in-october-china-lake-maine/ Here’s a quick concept drawing of a vampire character I’m working on for my clipart store. Halloween is just around the corner so I thought I’d better start early adding a few holiday images. I actually only drew half of this guy, the old fashioned way using pencil & paper, ... http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1982/cartoon-vampire-drawing/ Great lecture in praise of the Fifth Amendment right to not be a witness against yourself. Important stuff! http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1977/dont-talk-to-police-under-any-circumstances-great-video-on-the-5th-amendment/ I’m happy to announce that a long time favorite of mine, master Illustrator and character designer Peter De Seve has started blogging! I actually had an idea for a blog post a while back that would have been titled: “5 Illustrators I Wish Were Blogging” and Peter De ... http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1966/illustrator-peter-de-sve-is-now-blogging/ I logged into gocomics.com the other day and noticed that they are now providing RSS feeds for each comic individually… GREAT! I though this was awesome and they were starting to finally “get” the whole RSS/web 2.0 thing. But lo and behold, when I check my feeds this morning, this ... http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1962/just-when-i-thought-gocomics-was-starting-to-get-it-with-rss/ I wouldn’t want to encounter this guy on a scuba diving trip.  He’s got a bit of an Invader Zim quality… I loved that show. http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1961/dr-evil-sea-claw-character-design-concept/ I enjoyed this little Adobe Illustrator drawing tutorial by marciolcastro over at YouTube. I found his shading technique in particular quite interesting. I’m not sure I have the patience to do all that layering though. :-) http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1956/a-nice-adobe-illustrator-drawing-video/ Here’s a great little write-up on “Toolers” by Von Glitschka over at his blog: Art Backwash. What’s a Tooler you ask?  A Tooler is basically a self-proclaimed creative professional with little to no skill and/or talent who relies heavily on computer tools to create art & design. A polite way ... http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1955/dont-be-a-tooler-by-von-glitschka/   A cartoon depicting how your government really works and thinks. No wonder everything’s broken. http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1954/how-your-government-works-new-cartoon/ I love this quote by the great Zig Ziglar… "When you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them." ... http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1952/zig-ziglar-quote-video/