Hi Everyone, Over the past few months I have had the pleasure to have worked with Power of One LLC to create a coloring book companion to their Children’s Book Sammy’s New Look ( a project I also illustrated). Sammy & Friends Coloring and Activity Book has over 100 pages of coloring pages and activities for…
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The Wait Is Over. The Octo-Samurai Comic Is Here
After a lot of work and time. The Octo-Samurai Comic is here! As I have said in my earlier posts, Octo-Samurai started as sketch for a drawing challenge last year and evolved into something larger and more personal. After the sketch, it became a promotional postcard illustration. Now it has become a comic. My day…
THE OCTO-SAMURAI COMIC IS ALMOST HERE
The Octo-Samurai comic is just about done! On my last post I spoke about working on a new personal project. When I started the comic it was to do artwork with my students. After my sketches turned out better than expected I decided to make it into a more finished short comic. Above is the…
New Year, Love and Art Books
As we wrap up the year I would like to thank all of you who read this blog. It has been a very eventful year with both ups and downs. No matter what, I still feel blessed and thankful to have the support of so many wonderful people. Over the past few posts I have posted…
Creative Book Review 5: Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland (Part 2)
“Once the art has been made, an entirely new set of problems that require the artist to engage the outside world. Call them ordinary problems.” -Davis Bayles & Ted Orland Making Art. There’s not much more to it than that, right? When considering what an artist goes through to be a successful, it’s easy to…
Creative Book Review 4: Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland (Part 1)
“What separates artists from ex-artists is that those who challenge their fears, continue; those who don’t, quit. Each step in the artmaking process puts that issue to the test.”- David Bayles & Ted Orland When I was a kid, making art was simple. When sharing my work, I was fearless and people loved it. In…
Creative Book Review 3: “Making Ideas Happen” by Scott Belsky
The forces that help us be productive and execute our ideas are often the odds with the very source of our ideas: our creativity. -Scott Belsky Years ago while I was still a student at College for Creative Studies I met a man who was an excellent storyteller. When he told me his ideas for…
Creative Book Review 2: Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
“Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don’t come out the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying. ” – Austin Kleon I remember being in art school and worrying about my style and being jealous of people who…
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