the book!

It's right HERE on Amazon! I illustrated this book last spring for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which is coming out pretty soon...

I thought I'd just share some pages, since it's been released into the world already. These don't have any text (although you can obviously spot where the text belongs), and also the book doesn't exactly look like this, since it's a fancy 3-D book that comes with fancy little 3-D glasses. The effect is actually pretty neat.



Drawing food is a tedious affair. It really forces you respect the little glinty grease bits on a pizza or the texture of scooped ice cream when you are required to duplicate it...



These aren't all the pages, they're just the best ones (as far as I'm concerned).



I watched "The Lady Vanishes" while doing this page. Now when I look at it I think about terribly upright English people on trains.



Yay! I bought a copy at Borders and it was right next to my buddy Christian's book on the rack. Small world!

heartbeat underwater

I have been wanting to do these pieces for sooooooooooo long! Like, years.


I love mermaids. My inner 7 year old is singing right now.

gorgon lady

A gorgon is like, the generic term for a Medusa type lady. They are fierce and scary creatures, with snake hair! Except for when they are wearing fancy flowery robes and sitting on urns.

Something about this bugs me but I haven't figured out what it is yet. I'll come back to it later.

mr. minotaur

He likes apples, but don't get too close or he'll bop you one with his club.

mythological

I have a show at Occidental College later this month. Can you guess the theme? Did you say "mythological creatures"? If you did then you're right!


I don't usually put up rough, ugly, crazy sketches like this, but I feel guilty for not updating in forever, so you get a sneak peak at my process...whatever that may be.



Right now I'm focused on creatures of the mostly Greek in origin. Later there will be fairies! I like to delight and indulge my inner seven year old with the skills of my outer 24 year old sometimes.



There's a lot of mental static on these pages. I do a lot of thinking/drawing/scribbling when I figure stuff out for pieces. I know a lot of it probably doesn't make sense to you, but that's okay. I'm the only one who sees it most of the time anyway.



I've had a lot of these guys rattling around in my brains for a while. Like Mr. Poseidon.



Mermaids! Yes!



More soon.