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UPDATE: Color! (Originally published on Saturday, January 26, 2019) It's been quite a long time since I stepped foot in this blog.  Not ...

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 ...

Last year I dabbled with a character for #MerMay2019, the annual month-long mermaid illustration event on the Internet. If you use Instagra...

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...

Back in May, I wanted to do the #mermaychallenge, an online event where artists draw and share their mermaid illustrations during the entire...

UPDATE I was working on this illustration a while back, but I had no spare time and had to put it aside. The composition was too busy, but...

Another Mer-Kat image for MerMay2019. Borrowed a fish image I did a few weeks back. Encountering the obnoxious BelchFish.

So with work, moving to a new home, and many other things making May insanely busy, I still wanted to do a few #MerMay images for 2019. Thi...

I have been struggling to create this character for some time. I needed a funny yet threatening Dragon for a picture book manuscript. I beli...

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 ...

A video of inking a new character in real time I call Moon-Boy. This is a new character I'm developing for an original picture book sto...

A poor little Meep-Moop is being picked on by one of those alien-bully Skarggs. Someone should do something about this . . . These alie...

Funny how inspiration works. One of my favorite Facebook people is Jason Curtis , a cartoonist with a true sense of humor, original wit, and...

Here is the Taco character. I felt burrito would be a heavyweight boxer, while poor old Taco would a more frail character. And in this co...

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...

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...