Self-Publishing Your Children’s Book and Hiring an Illustrator in the Year 2025
Hey Writers and Illustrators! Can we hit the reset button on our relationship when we’re looking to work together? After a dozen or so years producing books for private clients, and illustrating children’s books as well, I’ve got some opinions. Let’s get grounded in mutual respect and reality so we can make something we’re all proud of. Link to my essay in bio.
How to Retain Your Humanity in The Darkest Timeline
Back in 2001, I got my first Wacom tablet for digital drawing. I was in college, and I was eager to explore the medium and I had to argue for the legitimacy of completing drawing class assignments in Photoshop with my professors. They were concerned it was somehow...
What’s the Point of Drawing Unicorns When the World is On Fire?
We’re coming up on five years since we had to hunker down “for two weeks” and let this novel coronavirus thing burn itself out, remember that?I am not about to start waxing nostalgic about 2020. I didn’t need a global pandemic in which we lost tens of millions of...
The 2025 Superb Owl
While accounts of the Game not authorized by the NFL are strictly prohibited, I will say that I enjoyed having this one on in the background this year, especially since I am always rooting for the Birds, no matter what, so this didn’t disappoint. More and more...