Author: Jess Smart Smiley


  • “Type a message to a friend, family member, pet, politician, or lover, and email it to snailmailmyemail@gmail.com. Then sit back and relax while your email is handwritten, sent out, and delivered to the recipient of your choosing, completely free of charge!” “Snail Mail My Email is a month-long (July 15 – August 15), interactive community…

  • [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv0YjQ2KN3c] The creator of Habibiย drawing page borders and sharing his workflow for his 12 hour pages (6 hours for panels, 6 hours for page border).

  • For anyone that’s been following my novel-in-the-works, I have exciting news: I’VE FINISHED MY ROUGH DRAFT! Hooray! Three months of writing, 232 pages typed, and 127,000 words written. Phew! Since finishing, I’ve been drawing like crazy, and planning out my next projects, trying to get my mind off of my novel, so that I can…

  • [ted id=1190] “Economics writer Tim Harford studies complex systems — and finds a surprising link among the successful ones: they were built through trial and error. In this sparkling talk from TEDGlobal 2011, he asks us to embrace our randomness and start making better mistakes.”

  • ELEPHANT

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    This friendly elephant is an experimental mock-up from an upcoming project. If all goes well, you’ll be getting to know this elephant over the next couple of months. The elephant is drawn in pencil and colored in Photoshop.

  • Craig Thompson’s long-awaited Habibi comes out this September from Pantheon. The book has been six years in the making and Craig has been kind enough to take bits of time away from writing and drawing to give us fans a look at what he’s been up to on his blog. Today Craig launched HabibiBook.com, a…

  • It’s true. It’s real. This guy has kept a blog about pens for YEARS now. Since November, 2007, actually. When I found out that JetPens.com was out of my favorite Akashiya brush pens, I started looking for other places that might carry it, and came across Brad Dowdy’s pen blog. It’s called (appropriately) the Pen…

  • Crowdfunding is a relatively new concept, that allows for small businesses and individuals to gain fans and raise money for their projects. You’ve probably heard of sites like Kickstarter orย IndieGogo; these are funding platforms. You post your project (let’s say a book you want to make) and people “donate” money to your project. In exchange…

  • A couple of pages from my current sketchbook.

  • BEGIN AGAIN

    (-viaย Pikaland)