I’ve been working on a children’s book for a while, a story about a family camping trip and a furry beast lurking in the woods. Recently I finished up the drawings and the manuscript and started thinking about how to create the mockup to show to publishers (I’ve made these mockups in the past with a previous story – think glue-sticks and kinkos trips). I was pondering how to go about presenting my new story when I stumbled across the booklets Apple will printout from within iPhoto:

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These drawings were inspired by necessary items we never think about. Like wine glasses and knives. Familiar and banal, they can be fun things to draw. Also, it’s hard not to be shaken by our energy crisis. Maybe in the future we’ll all have a personal gas can/energy account to look after.

did i mention i’m in grad school for book arts and printmaking yet i am loving the illustration…
brian biggs is my teacher. check out his site.
this illustration is for a mural in a bookstore…

list 5 things you believe in. now illustrate one.
i believe in coffee.
yep. i do… feed your brain. milk. 2 sugars.
(PS the picture is 9″ x 14″)

This is the kind of drawing/painting one does after looking at Pieter Bruegel the Elder
drawings for a few days. I’m really hoping this is the week Rove gets frog-marched out of the White House… maybe he’ll be forced to hop if the authorities supplement his departure with ankle-cuffs.
This image isn’t as dynamic as the sketch in which the horses were galloping. Here they’re doing more of a mosey. After seeing it scanned in I realize I still need to improve some of the line work and shadows.

Images of dead sharks always shake me.
It’s as if someone cut off one of my legs.

To prevent voluminous grinding-great for married people. Took the image from an ad you’ve probably seen. Mouths are just as alive as the eyes.

I just got back from my two week trip to Europe. We visited Germany (Düsseldorf and Cologne), the Netherlands (Amsterdam) and Denmark (Aarhus, Copenahgen and Møns Klint). We saw over a dozen museums and galleries, the best of which was probably the Louisiana Museum north of Copenhagen which had a really inspiring Matisse show (more on his tree drawing later).
On our last day we took a journey down to the southeast corner of Denmark to the island of Møn. There we found the most spectacular landscapes of our trip in the 400 foot white chalk cliffs of Møns Klint. A breathtaking end to our great trip.
In addition to taking scads of pictures, I tried to draw as much as possible, and I’ve created a collection of a few of the sketches to share. Click on the above image to see them, or click here.
I also have to recommend the sweeping epic of a novel, “Cloud Atlas” by David Mitchell (recommended to me by fellow invisibleman PA). This was my travel book, and it delivered exactly what I was looking for on a good trip. It’s an epic that sweeps through time as well as distance. Be sure to check it out.