Peek

No need to comment. You'll enjoy this panel in the larger context of the story. Tally-ho. Have a good week.

50

I sketched that first panel on my birthday in March. It took several months to really get the image right. I'm so happy with it.

I am trying now to draw things that seem too hard -- like the bike and the witches shoes in the bookcase drawing. The results set me a bit on edge, but I've decided that imperfection will pave the way to growth. Look for more bikes and shoes in future posts.

Ordinary

I wrote and drew this quickly, just as an experiment.

Outtake. I lost a lot when I added the wild cookie as a backdrop to the drawing. Less is more? So I used Photoshop to restore some of the simplicity.

sparrow

This post took about 14 hours (conceptualize, draw, color, edit). It took 4 years of thought to render into just a few sentences. I'm not sure why I did that strange (ugly) lettering on the last two images. I wanted to convey the prickly, un-scripted feel of the moment.

Thanks to Jim Burns & Co. for the use of this beautiful image. Visit their website.