Author: Jess Smart Smiley


  • I’m a sucker for making novelties of my own, and have designed everything from stickers to temporary tattoos and air fresheners to trading cards. I leaped at the opportunity to make some play money for the students at Scera Park Elementary and I had a blast coming up with this design. Anybody else need some…

  • HAPPY WEEKEND!

      My monsters and I want you to have a happy weekend. Okay?

  • To follow-up with my earlier post on David Hockney and his studies of the camera lucida, here he is talking about the making of his photo collage,ย Pearblossom Highway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTKYb8iVJQ4 If you missed this week’s posts, click to find out more about How to Make Comics Nirvana and the Beach Boys New Album Artwork Draw a…

  • For all of you doodlers out there: the good folks at Doodler’s Anonymous are offering a Tom Bihn designer backpack ($160 value)! Check out the submission guidelines hereย and let me know when you win.

  • Wes Kirkpatrick’s music has been compared to some heavy-hitters, including Josh Ritter and Jason Mraz, and he’s shared the stage with Martin Sexton, Blues Traveler and the John Butler Trio. The guy can play.ย “It is a powerful thing when music can take you out of your current mindset and completely transport you to another time…

  • Smells Like Beach Boys Way back in high school I was listening to a local radio station playing in the background while I finished my homework. Out of nowhere, this mashup of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and the Beach Boys’ “Sloop John B” came on the radio: [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/19396729″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true”…

  • LEARN HOW TO MAKE COMICS | JUNE 10-14 Do you have children ages 10-14 that want to make comics? I’ll be teaching a five-day comics class at Higher Ground Learning in Salt Lake City, June 10-14, covering everything from generating and filtering story ideas, developing characters and story arcs, laying out comics pages and speech…

  • These poor children experience the temptation of instant gratification over delayed gratification. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3S0xS2hdi4

  • http://vimeo.com/creativemornings/seth-godin