YEAR IN REVIEW 2013 has been quite a year! I’m so grateful for the opportunity I have to work in a field that I love and to put more of my favorite pictures and ideas into the world. Here are a few project highlights from the year: Life, the Universe and Everything This was my…
WIN A SIGNED COPY Happy October, everyone! To celebrate Halloween and the upcoming release of my newest children’s book, Rumpus on the Run: A Monster Look-n-Find Book, I’ll be giving away 3 signed copies and 3 PDFs of the book! The book is filled with spooky-fun and cutesy-quirky monsters in 10 full-color imaginative scenes. (You…
My new book is filled with spooky-fun monsters and critters, and it comes out just in time for Halloween! Keep watching this blog to find out how you can pre-order Rumpus on the Run: A Monster Look-n-Find Book, and even win a copy for your family! BONUS: Starting October 1, I’ll be posting fun Rumpus-themed…
Ha! You like how I titled this, as though I have some free wallpaper download every weekend? Hey, maybe that should be a new thing…Anyway, we’re getting closer to finishingย Rumpus on the Run: A Monster Look-n-Find Book, so here’s a wallpaper to celebrate! DOWNLOAD HERE.
I’ve just wrapped up the interior artwork for my upcoming book,ย Rumpus on the Run: A Monster Look-n-Find Book, and now it’s time to decide on a cover. Let me know which design you like best by leaving a comment below–it just might be the cover that gets printed!
For the last month and a half I’ve been working on my own hidden object book (thinkย Where’s Waldo, but with my own characters). The book is calledย Rumpus on the Run: A Monster Look-N-Find Book and it was successfully funded via Kickstarter on March 30. As part of my Kickstarter project I invited everyone (backer or…
The Rumpus has been making his way through the book, stopping briefly at the annual Snowman Parade, and now at the Future Circus! Here are a couple of teaser images from the Future Circus. Happy weekend!
I’m deep in the drawing process for my look-n-find book and thought I’d mention that I’ve drawn over 1,000 monsters, goblins, snowmen and more for Rumpus on the Run: A Monster Look-N-Find Book—and I’m not even halfway through the drawing stage! Check out this section of the “Monster Art Show”:
Check it out! Some previews of the Snowman Parade scene from my upcoming book “Rumpus on the Run: A Monster Look-N-Find Book“! KIND WORDS GO A LONG WAY And here are some kind words from a fellow artist, friend, and backer of the project, Rachael Moody: Jess I am not supposed to be on FB…
Aside from making my own Monster Look-N-Find book on Kickstarter, I’ll be making a special community look-n-find with YOUR monster drawings! Email your colored monster drawing to jess.smiley@gmail.com by April 15, so that I can include your monster in the picture. Files should be a 300ppi jpg in rgb. (If this frightens you, then get…