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(Like always, if you don’t want this on your dashboard per se, please tell me).

After I posted my letter about starting a new job at Dreamworks I got a lot of messages and emails from people asking if I could talk about my journey more in detail and how I got here despite going to school in Pittsburgh for psychology and almost giving up on animation halfway through college. I know that I would have appreciated reading something like this a year and a half ago so I thought I’d share my story in the hopes that it might be able to help someone who is struggling. Plus: a detailed explanation of how social media has done so much for me as an artist.
Buckle in guys. Lots of text under the cut!
The Crown Knights’ talents as highlighted by illustrator Suzuki Noritaka for his Jaja-Uma! Quartet series. This double page spread was originally published in the November 1995 issue of MEGU magazine and has been scanned from my personal collection.
If you’ve ever tried to draw a perspective grid by hand, you know that it totally sucks butts. Here’s a quick and easy way that I use that lets me establish the basic perspective of my drawing in less than 30 seconds. This is the first 3 pages of the tutorial, and the rest of it is available on my Patreon!