Interlude
Learning to be Simple
ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT challenges for me as an artist was to learn how to simplify my drawing style. Early in my career my work consisted of large scale lithographs depicting weeks of painstakingly complicated imagery. Spending days and often weeks on each print wasn’t uncommon for me. But if you asked me to whip up a simple cartoon character, I wouldn’t even know where to start.
Fact is, simplifying my drawing style didn’t come easily. I was literally thrown into the world of cartoon animation when asked to join an animation team at a local production company. They already had an established series on a popular cable network channel (Dr. Katz, Comedy Central), and my job was to design and animate a pilot for ...
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