Let's Ride!

LEXICON 2013

I had a great time last week at the newest comic convention, LEXICON, at Lexington High School. Awesome art teacher and cartoonist Cara Bean invited a few local artists to come share our work with a cafeteria-full of high school artists. It was fun to meet the artists, see what they were making, and even do some art trades. One of the highlights was receiving this portrait of myself in exchange for a drawing of Tomb Raider (!):

See more on Cara Bean's teaching blog (where I stole this photo from).

Pizza for lunch?

Yay! Hot pizza comin' through.

How Drawing Should Feel

Not like this:

It's easy to forget.

Harvard Natural History Museum

Great illustrator meet-up this past Saturday at Harvard's Natural History Museum

Boston Children's Museum

There will be an official reception at some point, but it's there now if you want to check it out!

In progress, still

Nine Things

I forgot to mention that I was featured in Nine Things Magazine last month.

Check it out!

In progress

Sketchbook 28 & Sketchbook 28

When I was in high school, I started keeping a sketchbook. After I had gone through a bunch of them, I started numbering them to keep track. These were all 9 x 12 Strathmore sketchbooks. Then, about five years ago, I wanted to be able to doodle on the go more, so I bought a pocket-size sketchbook. These are great for taking to a coffee shop on my lunch break or just wherever I go. I started numbering these as a second series of sketchbooks.

And then I noticed that I had hit number 28 in both series! Woo! So I obviously go through the mini-sketchbooks a lot faster than the full-size ones, which makes sense.

Here are some selections from both sketchbooks 28:
"Here ya go, kid. Two scoops o' butterscotch. Now scram."
(Alternate caption: "Bill was so depressed, he didn't even notice that his cigarette was melting his ice cream cone. Fluffy felt bad for him")