Creating Awe and Wonder
One Illustration at a time.
DIY Summer Camps for Kids
Don’t do a new camp every week. You get camp director burn out by the third camp and you could care less about what your kids do that summer.
Color Science (Part 1)
Maybe there was a chart of some kind that told you what colors were warm and which were cool and that everyone else had just been taught to memorize a list—like memorizing your times tables—-so they just knew and they didn’t have to figure it out every single time they reached for a tube of paint.
I Got Rejected!
If you are going to be rejected, being told they love your artwork is a pretty good way of doing it.
Silhouettes
I thought “I can justifiably procrastinate by doing silhouettes for each of the pages in the book.”
My Online Shop
I was surprised when they called me back at 4 pm and said all I needed to do was to pay the permit fee and they would e-mail me the permit.
Backgrounds
The problem is, I can’t just pull Richard Hull out of my back pocket every time I’m working on a piece and say, “What does it need?”
Learning a new Website Hosting
I chose to do this not to make life more difficult for myself, but because my old service wasn’t uploading images. Since images are my product, I didn’t have much of a choice.