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I went and did a press check for the DRAWINGS books this week. A press check is where you take pages straight from the printing press and check their color to see if it's looking right. The press these books are getting printed on is a huge 4 color offset machine about the size of a semi-truck. Watching it churn out DRAWINGS pages was impressive and noisy! The pages needed a little color fixing, but after a few runs we got them pretty close to matching the other books. Here they are next to each other for comparison: And get a look at...

What if Cupid used an army of robots to carry out his work? That was the idea this week when I sat down to do a Valentines Day themed drawing.  I used the supplies I got this month from my Art Snacks box and submitted this to the monthly #artsnackschallenge.  I took process photos so I could share them here: Step 1: Photoshop Sketch  Step 2: Print the sketch out Step 3: Get art tools ready Step 4: Overlay vellum and trace the sketch Step 5: Base rendering stage I also removed the sketch underneath and erased the smudging outside the...

First things first, DRAWINGS IV is at the printers! I uploaded all the files and they are working on the book. I should be getting a schedule from them soon so I know when exactly the books will be finished. As I was putting the print files together I noticed a theme that developed over the course of the year: mounted riders. I can explain why I kept returning to the mounted rider theme. My goal as an artist is to present a story with each image I draw. I want there to be blanks the the viewer has to fill...

As I was putting together my latest DRAWINGS book I saw that I had several drawings of a character I came up with called KNIGHT OWL: He was a character I made up randomly in the background of this drawing: People really liked the character, and then I started getting commission requests for him: Then people started asking how he worked. Was he a large owl wearing armor, or a small owl piloting a robot suit? To answer those questions I drew this: To which someone informed me that owls don't have hands. I thought that couldn't be true. I...