tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246112132009-07-05T11:44:56.611-07:00Home of CSUF Illustration Students, Alumns, and PeersMac McCoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15436394520124509797noreply@blogger.comBlogger202125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24611213.post-48883803295862989352009-07-05T11:37:00.000-07:002009-07-05T11:44:53.557-07:00

The cover of the May-June issue of the SCBWI Bulletin has an illustration by Pat Cantor, a student in the MFA in Illustration program. She received that honor as part of her Best Portfolio Award last summer. Since that time, Cantor has also gotten represented by the Andrea Brown Literary Agency. The SCBWI has recently updated its website and will hold its 38th Summer Conference August 7-10 in

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Kazu Kibuishi announced he's working with CSUF Illustration alumni, Richard Pose, on a graphic novel project in development. Kibuishi is the founder and editor of the Flight anthology. His second volume of the children's graphic novel Amulet (The Stonekeeper's Curse) will come out in September. Richard Pose published several short graphic novel stories in past volumes of Flight as well as one

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Gallery Nucleus hosts a well-deserved retrospective exhibit of the art of Bob Peak, the "father of the modern Hollywood poster." His most famous posters include Apocalypse Now, My Fair Lady, Star Trek (the motion picture), and many more. In the 80s, the US Postal Service commissioned him for the Los Angeles Olympics stamps illustrations. Like some of his predecessors, such as Coby Whitmore and

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Doug Sirois wrapped up one busy semester setting up his terrific MFA show and completing tens of pages of comics for Hercules: The Knives of Kush, a mini-series comic book published by Radical Comics. Sirois received the penciled pages as scans and inked and colored them digitally. The art direction encouraged great detail, so the final pages provide impressive visual information. The online

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Several art majors made their mark at this year's graduation. During the Honors Convocation, Jennifer Fujikawa (BFA in Animation) received accolades for her industry experience and academic accomplishments as a President's Scholar (profile article on the campus website). Two students completed the Honors Program: Kelly Costello (BFA in Illustration) and Kristin Mouri (BFA in Graphic Design).

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Heisuke Kitazawa (PCP) recently came back to Los Angeles for a solo show at Giant Robot. During his trip, he paid us a visit at Cal State Fullerton where he received his MFA in Illustration. PCP presented his art to Prof. Cliff Cramp's students. After years of only working digitally, PCP explained how he's recently gotten back into some traditional "hand-dirtying" techniques. If you did not

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Andrea Ruygt, who is completing a BFA in Illustration at CSUF, stunned many classmates and professors last week! Not only can she wield an ink pen for poetic children's book illustrations, she has a beautiful voice. Her song "Climb Up" finished first on the weekly contest on Amaze.fm last Friday, and so it played on radio KRLA 870 Monday at the end of the 4 o'clock hour. Rock on, Annie!

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CSUF was the only school this year to take two top awards in the 2009 Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards Student Competition. In the print category, Graphic Design student, Jimmy Hsieh, won 1st place, and two more nominations wen to Anita Sougu and Jordan Lee. In the trailer category, Entertainment Arts/Animation student, Chi-Hao "Howard" Cheng, took 3rd place, and his classmate Julie Douglas

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Professor Cliff Cramp and graduate student Doug Sirois are featured in the new release of Corel's updated Painter software, Painter 11. Corel Painter is one of industry's leading software programs. Their work can be found in the galley section when the program is launched.

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Brian Growe is drawing the classic characters for Disney. He shares on his blog that he won a fun pin's design contest, and his design was all the rage in the Disney store! On his blog, you can see the evolution from sketch to final product of his design of a scared Pluto and cautious Mickey. In his spare time, Growe contributes regularly to the graphic novel anthology, Hard Eight.

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Recent graduate in Illustration and Animation, Sandra Lopez, has a new website! After the release of her first novel, Esperanza, a Latina Story, Lopez is writing the next installment. You can sign up to stay in touch and receive updates about her upcoming book.

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A well-deserved solo show of the legendary movie poster artist, Drew Stuzan, will run from February 13 to March 2 at Gallery Nucleus, in Alhambra, Calif. People around the planet have a greater familiarity with the art of Struzan than with most top names from the contemporary gallery and museum scene. Struzan created the posters of Back to the Future, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, and

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Production artists behind the upcoming movie, Coraline, based on the Neil Gaiman story, will talk about their art and experiences during a 2-hour panel at Gallery Nucleus, in Alhambra, Calif., Saturday February 7th, from 2 to 4pm. The artists presently listed to appear include Andy Schuhler, Chris Appelhans, Dan Krall, Jon Klassen, Shane Prigmore, and Shannon Tindle. Consult the official

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Somehow with the frenzy of end of semester activities, we forgot to point out this newspaper article on graduate student Katy Betz in the Press-Enterprise from Riverside, CA. The article, "Artist's paintings explore meaning, beauty of life," covers Betz's artistic journey, education, and influences. Betz is presently completing an Illustration MFA, and she taught as Graduate Assistant for the

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Professor Cliff Cramp has been chosen as one of twenty-six artists, internationally, to be displayed in the digital art gallery at the Macworld Conference and Expo of Digital Art. The Macworld Conference and Expo will be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA – January 5-9, 2009. “Macworld is known as the pre-eminent event for discovering imaginative uses of Mac OS technology. Our new

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The Art Alliance at CSUF hosted the scholarship awards banquet in which seven scholarships went to illustration students. Among the seven students were three undergraduates and four graduate students. Congratulations go to…Undergraduates:Michael Mostumoto - Myrt Purkiss ScholarshipMikaela Espina - John and Flora Olsen ScholarshipEmily Asaro - College of the Arts Alumni Association Leadership

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The Art Department at CSU Channel Islands is hosting an art show of artists who teach at universites in Southern California. Each CSUCI art department faculty was asked to sponsor one artist for the show. Professor Cliff Cramp was chosen by CSUCI adjunct Kathleen Quaife to represent Cal State Fullerton. The show runs through January 15th.

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The Chemers Gallery in Tustin is having its 17th annual children's book illustration exhibit. This year's art comes from illustrators Elisa Kleven, Beth Krommes, Holly Meade, Zachary Pullen and Melissa Sweet. Book signing and presentations from these artists will take place Saturday, December 6th, 2008, from 1pm to 5pm. The exhibit will stay on the walls until December 20th. Next, hop north to

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For many years, Mark Hernandez, who has almost finished his BFA in Illustration, mulled over going on a study abroad program. As of this December, he has spent the last four months in Florence, Italy, where he is furthering his understanding of drawing, painting, art history, Italian, and so much more. He managed to get some of his editorial cartoons published in a local newspaper, The Florence

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Katy Betz (top left on photo) and Pat Cantor (top right), two graduate students in the Illustration MFA program at Cal State Fullerton, have won prizes at the 2008 SCBWI-Los Angeles Illustrator's Day held November 8th. The attendees chose to award Katy Betz's portfolio, while the judges, a group of illustration professionals participating at the conference, honored Pat Cantor's portfolio. Both

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Several art alums who are now working for Dreamworks, Nickelodeon, LucasFilms, MTV, Cartoon Network, Titmouse, and other cool studios are organizing an art auction to raise funds for art programs in schools. You can acquire beautiful art and serve a great cause all at once! It's this Saturday at 7pm at the Rialto Theater in South Pasadena. Meet'em, do a good thing, and watch the movie "Goonies

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Jason Haniuk, BFA in Illustration and Entertainment Arts/Animation, won the "Best Animation" in the 2008 CSU Media Arts Festival held last weekend on the CSU-Channel Islands campus. His project, "Nutty the Neurotic Ninja Squirrel," a Flash animation, was the culmination of more than one year of development. Haniuk thanked all those who helped him, including "my boss at PartnerPeople too for

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This Friday, Doug TenNapel, creator of the legendary video game "Earthworm Jim," Nick Toons animated show "CatScratch," and the graphic novel "Creature Tech" will share his secrets about creating solid stories and making successful pitches! The presentation is FREE and on Friday November, 14th at 4pm in VA-113 (see CSUF campus map). TenNapel has years of experience in Hollywood where he has

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The public can now track assignments and finished illustration of students on the new CSUF Advanced Digital Painting blog. This course, created and taught by Prof. Cliff Cramp, is the third illustration course in the illustration sequence. It reinforces a painterly approach to illustration using digital tools, primarily Corel Painter. Prof. Cramp's digital art, which he has produced for many

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This Saturday, CSUF's Mac McCool will participate in a panel during Illustrator's Day, an event organized by the Southern California chapters of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Other participants and presenters include art directors, Joann Hill (Clarion Books) and Steve Myhre, licensing artist, Lorena Siminovich, and illustrators, Erin Eitter Kono, Mary Peterson,

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