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In the past year, I rewrote my picture book story The Squire. At first, it was going to be a story about a little girl playing strong roles ...

Hard to believe it's been about two years since I created this story and character while doing jury duty. The long hours waiting was the...

UPDATE: New Type for Title I'm playing around with type, trying to develop a title design for the book. Placed the type on a lower l...

Cap'n Manchot is another support character for my picture book story Pirate Dreams. The story is getting bigger and bigger so I may have...

I've written many picture book manuscripts over the years. Sometimes I'll write a story and I "see" the characters. Other ...

Today's sketch is one I had around for a while. This was a design for a story I wrote using known fairy tale and nursery rhyme characte...

New concept sketch of a character I'm developing for my latest picture book manuscript, Bug. His name is Allen, a character with an extr...

REPOST DUE TO CORRUPT AND/OR LOST IMAGE FILE: Many posts labelled with Throwback Thursday suddenly missing or corrupt images. Why is this h...

Had my first NJ regional SCBWI (Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators) event this weekend. Great time ... especially seein...

Today's quick sketch in pencil, brush pen and Copic markers. It is a supporting character for a little picture book story I wrote called...

I had purchased new brushes for Photoshop last week, looking for brushes that give a more natural feel than the current brushes available in...

Special thanks to Rebekah of YouTube's The Cozy Couch for reading Bobby's Biggest Bubble! She did an absolutely great job. She i...

Haven't drawn an underling in some time. These are characters to an underground world in a children's book I wrote a few years ago. ...

Inktober 2017: Day20 Charli Today's Inktober breaks the pattern - because today is my wife's birthday. So, I inked a character f...

Today's quick sketch is another character design for a children's storybook idea. I've been on and off with this character for s...

Check out Erin's YouTube page here: Story Time with Erin Erin posts a new picture book video every weekday, 5 times a week. I find h...

I've been sketching this image on and off for a few months now. Another image for my grouping of Monstas and Bunnies , (I'm thinking...

Way before the book was printed, I would often come back to work on Bobby's Biggest Bubble, in over a 2 decade span. My career made it t...

During the weekends, I've been playing around with developing characters for a story idea I've had for the past few years. In this t...

Ah, the conflicts between digitally and physically drawing. Personally, I never liked to paint. Painting is punishing when you are unsure ...