One of my resolutions this year is to sketch an average of at least one still-life a day. By “still-life” I mean an actual physical model in the real world sense … because I don’t do enough realistic sketches, too often drawing from my own imagination instead. So far, I’m keeping up with my resolution. I skipped a few days but made up for it yesterday and today. Unfortunately for me, however, I don’t have a whole lot of interesting…
Another Loowis the lizard cartoon created for Loose Id. Share this post:
I don’t read chick lit, but I’ve always liked the illustration style on a lot of chick lit covers. Considering I’m into cartooning, it’s a very doable style for me, but I never really get many chances to do anything like it for work. With Suz deMello’s The Wilder Brother, I got my third shot at doing a cartoon cover. My first was Charming the Snake, and my second was Whose Bride Is She Anyway?, where I used my own…
I’ve been asked by two or three different people how I did this cover (heck if I know why, as it’s one of the least remarkable of my covers), so I thought I’d post a little behind-the-scenes background on it. First, it wasn’t an easy cover. It took at least three drafts before I got a final approval on it, and I generally pride myself on being the sort of artist that gets it right in one draft. So the…
This is an illustration I did for a story called “One” by Marlo Dianne, to be published in the seventh issue of Tales of the Talisman. The story is one page long, so I won’t post even a one-line summary for fear I’ll give away the entire plot. It’s a great story though, with a cool twist. I had to read it several times again after the first time because I couldn’t figure out which lines were literal and which…