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Stepping Stones
A wise art teacher gave me a piece of advice that I’ve never forgotten, and I want to pass it on to you. I had left my job as a math teacher to go back to school and learn about illustration…but after about one semester of steady progress, I hit a flat spot and I started really struggling in my drawing classes. I felt like I was going backwards, and it seemed obvious that I…
YESTERDAY’S POST
WILLFULLY DEFACING AN OTHERWISE FINE BOOK pt. II
June 25, 2024 - With The Woods In-between marking my 15th annual sketchbook collection, it’s worth noting that I haven’t always offered “Artist Edition” versions of my yearly collections. Sure, for the first few I might scribble a little doodle alongside a signature on the title page or personalize the sketchbook in someway, but I wouldn’t exactly call these artist editions. At some point, I began to offer a version of the sketchbook identical in every way to the standard version, but with an original drawing on the title page. Not a new idea, certainly, but it was a new endeavor for me at the time (whenever that actually was, I don’t remember, probably 2017's The Walking Hills). And over the years, I’ve scanned or photographed some of my favorites. For example, I did about 100 title page drawings in…
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