in the world of freelancing you just never know what type of assignment is going to come your way! When I was given the opportunity to dra...

The challenge of drawing from life on the trains like I do, is that there's no guarantee how long your subject is going to be there. The...

It appears tat this lady was a little too angry to sit down in the two available seats. Or maybe she became aware that I was drawing her an...

One of the great things about keeping a sketchbook is occasionally finding artistic ges that you totally missed. Since I'm constantly d...

One of the great things and least understood things about caricature is tgat you not only can caricature facial features, but also pers...

Contrary to popular belief, the so called "great idea" dent come to us "out of nowhere" in a sudden "AhHa!"...

A good cartoon in my opinion should be able to "be read" by any person regardless of what language they speak. In order to...

I've said it once, and I'll say it again, there is no substitute fr REAL life drawing. By this I mean drawing that is taken out of ...

"So,...did you do your tribute to Davy Jones?" blurted out an artist friend of mine over coffee,the other day, reminding me that D...

With ST Patricks Day fast approaching,(this was posted a couple of days before March 17) I thought I'd share this illustration and poem ...

If making comics have fascinated, agitated, frustrated, and mystified you, have no fear, true believers, Subwaysurfer tells you hw to make c...

SUBWAYSURFER’S Refrain To Hurt and Pain (a protest poem about The Mayor Bloombergs crackdown on artists and other street vendors) Oh wher...

http://www.wired.com/mp3/features010.mp3 What Caricatures Can Teach Us About Facial Recognition I KNEW this would happen one day, and it...

Recently on a LINKEDIN forum post, a member posted the eternal question, "WHAT IS TE PURPOSE OF LIFE?"  As you might expect, the...

trust me when I tell you-people, that if you are a CREATOR whether you're a visual artist, dancer, poet or a writer(the original audienc...

Pretty Gurls always pass me by by Elgin Bolling Pretty Girls! Pretty Girls! They always pass me by! I’m too shy to look them in the e...

Every now and then, I say something that sounds so truly profound that I wonder if it really came from me in the first place. I had that exp...

I was in the mood to draw today and thought I'd illustrate this old, tired cliche. It's a Dog Eat Dog World. I thought it would be ...

Doing a plug here for the book I pulished featuring a collection of subway inspired drawings of mine during the 2006-2008 period. I was re...