A few pages from my sketchbook. I love exploring the qualities of graphite and ink together–a fine pair, don’t you think?
One of my biggest influences in drawing, comics and storytelling is a creative force known as Doug TenNapel. Doug has created video games, animated tv shows, and graphic novels, not to mention one of the world’s most beloved characters: Earthworm Jim. I’ve been following Doug’s work for 16 years now, and own all of his…
Yesterday I approved the proof of Upside Down: A Vampire Tale with Top Shelf and the printer, and the book has been sent to press! Exciting! With just 39 days until October arrives, I’m finding that there is still a lot of work to be done. While we wait, I thought I’d share some more about…
I love Quentin Blake’s drawings. Ever since the first grade, I’ve devoured his illustrations and stories. It’s so exciting for me as an adult to be able to pull up interviews with him and watch videos of him drawing nearly any time I’d like. I recently came across these two interviews, that include footage of him…
My wife’s favorite animal is the elephant, so over the last ten years I’ve drawn a lot of ’em. I thought it would be fun to pull some of them out of hiding and see how they all look together. This is a page from last week’s sketchbook:
Drawing is the best. It’s my first love and I’m always trying to squeeze in a few more doodles. Who needs sleep when you can draw?! It’s just as important for me to draw just to mess around and play as it is for me to develop drawings and concepts for projects. If it wasn’t…
More pages from my sketchbook. Some pages are filled with nothing but notes, while others are crammed full of drawings. Nothing in my sketchbook is considered “finished”—it’s all working towards something, working out the ideas, techniques, methods, and content for whatever it is I’m doing. My sketchbook is my notebook, journal, To Do list, calendar…
Dear Quentin Blake’s drawings: I love you. Quentin Blake is one of my favourite illustrators of all time and I recently checked out his book, Alphabeasts, from the library. I couldn’t help but try my hand at some of his drawings. They’re always so energetic. When I was little I would sometimes get frustrated that…
6 years in the making. 672 pages. Arabic calligraphy. Islamic mythology. Hardbound. Foil-stamped. Out today. “I never know the endings of the books when I’m working on them. I spent a year on the first rough draft and couldn’t figure out the ending. Then I spent another year on the second rough draft, and still…