HeyJaredEddie Pittman: A Cartoonist's Odyssey
Welcome to Eddie Pittman: A Cartoonist's Odyssey. Join me on a journey through the ups and downs of a being a cartoonist as I navigate a creative life.
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The City That Forgot Me (opens the original)
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My maps app tells me to bear right onto Highway 78—Stone Mountain Freeway. Do they still call it that? Instead, on a whim, I bear left onto Lawrenceville Highway, right into the heart of my old neighborhood.It’s the second day of the Gwinnett County Fair, and I’m on my way to work after spending the night at the home of an old college friend in Decatur. I haven’t really driven through this part of town in nearly twenty-seven years. I grew up here. Went to school here. I was even married here.In
Don’t Share These with Eddie (opens the original)
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When I moved to Orlando in 1995 to take a caricature job at Universal Studios, one of the first people I met was another caricature artist trying to get into the Walt Disney Feature Animation training program. I knew about the program. I also knew I couldn’t get into it.Or at least I thought I couldn’t.My understanding was that Disney only recruited from a handful of art schools. Seven, to be exact. I hadn’t attended any of them. But this artist told me something I hadn’t heard: the Florida stud
A quick announcement: (opens the original)
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Over the last few weeks, I’ve found myself teaching workshops, creating class outlines and generally writing more and more about drawing. Not just how to draw, but mostly the ideas—or at least my ideas— behind it. Why certain poses feel alive, the secret of appeal, qualities of a good pose. The same kinds of things I spent more than thirty years learning in books, practice and animation studios.After a while, I realized those articles were becoming a different conversation. So I decided to give
Drawing the Invisible (opens the original)
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Why Do Some Poses Tell a Story?One of the things I’ve been thinking about lately is why some drawings immediately tell a story while others don’t.Most art books talk about anatomy, perspective, gesture, or proportion. Those things matter, of course. But I don’t think they’re where a great pose begins.I think it begins with a simple question:What is this character thinking?Years ago, while I was at Disney, we had actors come in and teach acting workshops. They weren’t talki
In Search of Appeal (opens the original)
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For as long as I’ve been drawing, I’ve heard artists talk about appeal. It’s one of Disney’s Twelve Principles of Animation. If you’ve ever studied animation or read The Illusion of Life, you’ve come across the term. Everybody seems to think they know what it means…until you ask them to define it.And that has fascinated me for years.I recently taught a workshop called Bringing Characters to Life, and as I was preparing for it, I realized I wasn’t satisfied with my own understanding of appeal. Of
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