My first children's book for Scholastic was finally published this month. "Big Shark's Valentine Surprise" is the fifth children's book I've illustrated, but my first time with Scholastic. My comp copies finally arrived last week. It's too late to order copies for Valentine's Day, and actually I'm told the book is only available through Scholastic's book club and not in...
Here's a website devoted to promoting modest dress among teenagers. They recently took a survey of 1,600 Christian teenage guys asking them questions related to how girls should dress. The results are interesting. I remember what it was like to be a young man with raging hormones and roving eyes, and I don't think most women truly realize what...
The upcoming assignment for DrawerGeeks is "Grrrrrr!". Our instructions are to create "the most bizarrely hilarious 'grrrr' face you can come up with!" It's not due for a couple of weeks yet, but this was a sketch I did this morning while playing around with my new Cintiq. I've always admired caricature artists who can distort the human face into...
Phil Vischer also has a blog that is worth checking out:www.philvischer.com...
"My big hairy audacious goal: To build the most trusted of the top four family media brands within twenty years,"So writes Phil Vischer, the founder of Big Idea Productions (creators of VeggieTales), an ambitious Walt Disney wanna-be. And he was off to a good start. Between 1996 and 1999 Big Idea's revenue grew by 3,300 percent, from $1.3 million to...
I'm currently illustrating a graphic novel for Stone Arch Books, designed to help elementary school kids improve their reading skills. The book is called "Day of the Field Trip Zombies". Here's a couple of rough pages:...
