Office Hours
Christopher ThornockOffice Hours is where I, Chris Thornock, spill the good stuff from years of teaching, drawing, and figuring it out as I go. It’s part advice column, part studio confessional—for anyone trying to make creative work that matters.
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I Have Thoughts
I happened upon a comment on Threads. It went something like this: Why is it that visual art is the only art where we often discourage the mastery of basic skills? Music demands knowledge of notes, facility with the instrument found through...
Work
Work. There’s no way around it. You have to dedicate your time to it. The art critic Jerry Saltz, in a recent social media post, emphasized this by telling people to stay up late and become vampires. He advised building a vampire crew and g...
Ai?
The college where I teach is asking for information regarding Ai and it’s place in each of our creative disciplines. I have my thoughts and experiences relating to what I do outside of teaching which mainly is children’s picture books. The...
Lower Stakes
Have you ever bought a new sketchbook? One with nice paper and a beautiful cover? Maybe you had been saving up for awhile and finally got to the art supply store and walked out with the sketchbook of your dreams. You might have carefully wr...
Thou Shalt Make A New Friend.
Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments by Cecil B. DeMille, 1956
I will be returning to the university this month to start a new semester. As I greet my eager students’ faces I thought it appropriate to address them directly, lik...
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I’m Chris and I am an illustrator, artist, and educator living in the Mountain West of the USA. When I'm not walking the dog my nose is in my sketchbook.
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