It’s been a long time since I attended classes, and yet I still regularly dream about being in school. It’s never the same school or the same teachers. The campuses always look strange and new, and the situation always seems odd or unusual. Last night, I dreamed I was on a math team headed by teacher Mel Gibson, and Mel Gibson was being a jerk. We were scheduled to go to some tournament between the 8th and the 11th of…
I don’t read chick lit, but I’ve always liked the illustration style on a lot of chick lit covers. Considering I’m into cartooning, it’s a very doable style for me, but I never really get many chances to do anything like it for work. With Suz deMello’s The Wilder Brother, I got my third shot at doing a cartoon cover. My first was Charming the Snake, and my second was Whose Bride Is She Anyway?, where I used my own…
I’ve been asked by two or three different people how I did this cover (heck if I know why, as it’s one of the least remarkable of my covers), so I thought I’d post a little behind-the-scenes background on it. First, it wasn’t an easy cover. It took at least three drafts before I got a final approval on it, and I generally pride myself on being the sort of artist that gets it right in one draft. So the…
I’ll get to posting regularly again. I promise. Last week was a bit hectic, and this whole month and next will probably be a whirlwind of stuff. I’ll reveal the why later, after the fact. But I’ll tell you what happened last week, the same day I posted the wedding cake photo. It happened before I posted the photo, even, but I just didn’t feel like writing about it. H.E. and I were in an accident; we were hit in…
I’ll bet you never saw a wedding cake like this. Minnie told me the cake maker was excited because no one had ever asked for a gingerbread house on a wedding cake before. Trust Minnie to be original. Even her table and name cards were thoughtful and unique, her illustrations gracing each of them so that if you had a pumpkin on your name card, you knew to sit at the pumpkin table. Table numbers? What? Don’t be so conventional….