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Howdy. ya'll! So it seems I'm now featured on this site: www.firstcomicsnews.com/ On the 29th of January as their front page Spotlight artist!

THAT's TODAY!!

Simultaneously unexpected and awesome news! I am both grateful and humbled. As promised, (on my other sites) I said I would post again on the day of, but wanted to share with you guys here to give you a heads up on current events! Here's to continued momentum in 2015

cheers,

~Chad C.

p.s. In the process of trying to figure out how to make it easier for me to post more frequently on here! Bear with me!

Schoolism/Imaginism

If you guys are in art school and want to be any kind of prominent artist in the entertainment, animation, video game, or comic book industry, I highly, highly recommend you take a look at the interviews on Schoolism.com

http://www.schoolism.com/

Bobby Chiu is in charge over there and is a respected industry artist (which is why he's able to pull interviews with the artists he presents). The information you will hear in these interviews is invaluable if you take your career as an industry artist seriously.

I tend to watch or listen to these a lot while I'm actually working, and it's helped answer a lot of questions I've had about other creator techniques and how they got started in the industry.

Check it Out!!

~Chad C.

Wow! We made it!

This was my first post on the 'Udon: World of Warcraft Tribute,' but since then I've found out that my piece made it in the book!! Super stoked for this and it will be out in July 2013 exclusively at San Diego Comic Con!

Prior Post:

So I just finished my "World of Warcraft - Tribute Book" piece minutes ago!! Of course I worked all the way up to the deadline date..but it took 2 months of "researching" WOW again in order to get my "reference" for the piece (such hard work). 

I really dig the design work in Warcraft and of Blizzard in general, so we shall see what they have to say (fingers crossed). Apologies, I cannot show you the piece or even a sneak peek, as Blizzard and Udon have said "NO!"

I respect the rules, so you'll have to wait, but the good news is, I will have more to post on Deviant Art that has nothing to do with that at all!!!

cheers all,

~Chad C.

Glen Keane (Quintessential Disney)

I would make this as a complete blog and ramble on about how great Glen Keane is, but I'd rather just allow you to follow the link and find out for yourself...



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I will say that I thought of this too late, but I really should have included Glen in my influence map.. I may replace someone on there actually...Including Freddy Moore kind of solidifies all of the people that came after him at Disney, but Glen definitely deserves high praise as one of the key artists that has influenced me.

Let's just say that everything you know as THE Quintessential Disney Style from the 80's until now (including Rapunzel) is Glen. The one that got me though, was definitely Tarzan. He also includes the Disney Family Album videos in his blog (which I absolutely LOVE) Enjoy!

cheers,

~Chad C.

Dakstalkers Tribute - Udon Crew

Been quite a while since I posted anything... too much stuff to remember (I'm pretty bad about blogging).
Anyway, this is kind of old news now but the most recent thing that's happened, therefore here ya go!

So this was my submission for the Darkstalkers Tribute Book, but I didn't make it in unfortunately

I still want to congratulate all of the winners and can't wait to see the book! Thanks to the Udon Crew regardless for doing this. Looking forward to more in the future. I'll be at Comic Con this summer anyway with my own books and to pick up this one. So see you guys this summer!

Cheers,
~Chad C.

Carlos Meglia

Sad news continues to plague the entertainment community, but in terms of hitting closer to home a great loss has been endured with the passing of one of my favorite artists Carlos Meglia. His work was a great influence on me in the way of style and presentation. Lots of life in the work, and it's hard to lose someone who has affected you to the point where it's just a part of your everyday life now...I think it's a little ironic that I just finished a Superman piece being that the first work I saw of his was the Superman/Tarzan crossover, which almost obviously had an affect on my work... You will be missed Carlos...RIP maestro...
~Chad C.