You are invited to Draw With Me on June 30th, at 9 am! The theme of this session will be what I’m calling “Responsive Composition”. This is where we use a containing shape or space to seed our idea and shape the layout (composition) of our drawing. We’ll explore ways…

Things I’ve Learned from My First 6 Months as a Podcaster — Are you trying to start and keep up with a regular, creative practice? Maybe you want to be more diligent in your daily sketchbooking habit, or perhaps you’re trying to develop a portfolio with regular, self-initiated projects. Whatever you have in mind, if you’ve ever started a creative practice, you…

You are invited to the first ever DRINK AND DRAW WITH ME, on Thursday, April 27 at 7PM. Yes, that’s right, this one will be in the EVENING for me, and some of you on the other side of the world will actually be awake! You can drink whatever suits…

You are invited to Draw With Me LIVE on Friday, March 31! This DWM will continue our Object Stories project, which we started in January. This will be Part 3 of 3! In Part One we started with planning and sketching our illustrations. In Part Two we ended up with…

You are invited to Draw With Me LIVE on Friday, February 24! This DWM will continue our Object Stories project, which we started last month. In Part One (Jan 27) we started with planning and sketching our illustrations. In Part Two we will begin sketching out our compositions. We’ll start…

You are invited to Draw With Me LIVE on Friday, JANUARY 27. For the next two DWMs, we’re going to be illustrating what I call Object Stories. We’ll learn more about it on Friday, but an Object Story is a picture of a collection of objects that tell a story…

Reflecting on the Past Year, Setting Goals for the Next — At the beginning of last year, I declared that 2022 would be The Year of Showing Up. In so many ways, it truly was. To me, showing up means setting up an intention and following through with it. It means having a plan and a purpose, and doing the work…

You are invited to Draw With Me LIVE on Thursday, January 5. Please note there will be no DWM this December. To make up for it, I will be hosting two DWM’s in January. This one, and then another one later in the month. This is going to be the…

How to Harness That First Spark of Inspiration to Make Your Dreams a Reality — This post is a transcript from Episode 1 of my podcast, Thoughts on Illustration, a Podcast About Showing Up and Growing Up as a Commercial Illustrator. You can listen to the podcast here, or follow it on the Podcast platform of your choice. https://thoughts-on-illustration.simplecast.com/episodes/i-want-to-do-that The Spark Moment