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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 ...

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...

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

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

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. ...

UPDATE So what's a pirate character without a parrot? I originally had a parrot on his shoulder, but really dislike the way it looked....

Not sure why I sketched this image. Maybe it's because I need a fox character for a picture book manuscript I'm working on, or it...

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

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...

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...

It's hard to believe that it's been five years since I used Kickstarter to help publish my first picture book. On June 1, 2012, th...

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

Did a quick color comp of one of my oldest characters, LB, based on an old sketch that fell out of a sketchbook. I don't remember why I ...

Here's an old character I have been keeping for a certain story I wrote over 20 years ago. I named him Milo, after the main character fr...

UPDATE: Color version Updated the post with a color version of the image below These characters are a part of a silly little poem/stor...

Here's a sneak peek at something I've been working on the weekends for quite some time now. This is one of many characters I need to...

Another image from my collection of sketches called "Monstas and Bunnies". This is one of a planned set of 12. Once the set is com...

Creating a character is tricky . . . sometimes. When I doodle, a character might emerge that seems to have more appeal than other sketches ....