3.125 Days till Where the Wild Things Are!

Yes i'm definitely Counting Down the days! :)

Arora Queen of the Night

Well Finally a scan and a name for Miss Arora Queen of the Night.
Forgive me for the delay i'm still catching up from the trip.
it's kinda scary how far behind one can get leaving for 10days...
haha i'm hoping to be caught up with everything tomorrow!
woot woot!
how are you all doing???
well friends i hope you all are doing amazing!
-d

Mr. Toastmeister

Wow, oh wow!
It seems like yesterday that my friend Sophie Ward and i started planning out
how her great story, "The Ginger Marmalade Toastmeister", would look...
I remember sitting at this amazing coffee shop in Santa Monica,
huddling around rough thumbnail sketches,
and brain storming all the little subtle touches we could add to it...
aw i miss those days!

I realized it was almost a year to the day since i started working on the book.
And don't worry, i will finish it really soon.
That is my goal! i'm closing in on it.
My friend Jason Jones hand wrote all the type for it!
This picture is a little sneak peak of page 13 out of it. :)
Let me know what you think!

In to the Elephant Cave

Hey everyone,
How have you been?
Life for me has been busy but exciting.
Been working on some fun projects lately.
Oh, and i get to pick up my good friend, Miss Sophie Ward, tonight at the airport.
She's going to be here for a few days.
It's going to be really fun. i'm sure there will be some pictures from our adventures. :)
Hope you're having a great day!

Out To Sea

Hey Yawl,
Thought i would post this little sketch i did at work when i was bored...
hahah.. Hope you like. :)

.... Oh yea. i bought a bunch of oil paint equipment...
Never done it before, going to try to teach myself.
i'll keep you posted.

Joey

Hey there friends.
The drawing up there is a early concept sketch i did for Sophie Ward's kids book.
She had the idea of basing the cat character of this boy i coach named Joey.
This was me trying to figure out how to do that.... hahah
Don't worry, Joey makes an appearance a few pages into the book... :)

Josette And The Elephant

Howdy friends. Here's a little elephant drawing i did awhile back.
It's funny, the dress that "Queen Josette" is wearing is one i designed 3 years ago,
but for some reason, i couldn't stop drawing it in every one of my paintings,
so there is a short stint where all my drawings had that dress in it.

oh yea for Got to tell you N*style magazine in Portugal did a feature on me this issue.
i'll definitely post scans from it when i get a copy. :)

I just remembered I have a sketchbook

Wow! i can't remember the last time i drew in my sketchbook.
i've been working so hard on finishing up projects, i haven't doodled in my sketchbook in forever.
Well, i did a really quick one the other day... i hope you like it. :)
How is everyone doing?

The Process

well folks i'm currently illustrating my first children's book written by the lovely miss Sophie Ward. It's an amazing book. i can't wait for it to be out there... but i wanted to post some screenshots of one of the drawing for the book. enjoy. :)