Escape from Netherworld—Piper
book promotion, character design, illustration processHere she is: Piper the elf from jacket art for Escape from Netherworld—about a group of role-playing gamers who are somehow transformed into their characters and transported into an alternate realm: Netherworld.
My pal, the extraordinarily…
Escape from Netherworld—Borhai
book promotion, character design, illustration processMore jacket art for Escape from Netherworld—it’s about a group of role-playing gamers who are somehow transformed into their characters and transported into an alternate realm: Netherworld. Yesterday I showed you Twiggy the dwarf. Here's…
Escape from Netherworld—Twiggy the dwarf
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Hey, gang! Sorry for the interruption in posts—I spent most of last week in New York City visiting art directors, editors and creative directors. Now I’m back and I want to show you something I worked on this summer.
Here is jacket art…
Hoist your flagons!
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Heave on your futtock-shrouds and don't leave your swashes unbuckled! 'Tis International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Don't forget: If you are anywhere near Latrobe, Pennsylvania, shape a course for The Art Center (819 Ligonier Street) where I’ll…
Tomorrow be the big day, belike!
book promotion, self promotionAye, Friday: the day we've been waiting for all year, International Talk Like A Pirate Day! Polish your hooks and sand your peg legs! If you are anywhere near Latrobe, Pennsylvania, set a course for The Art Center (819 Ligonier Street) where…
Alphabet Trail & Tales 2014
book promotion, illustration processThank you Le & Nancy of Citiparks for inviting me to perform in Pittsburgh's Frick Park once again this year—at the wreck of the old Salty Carrot.
We added some panels to the interior of our dear old barky. Here they are in progress as…
Join me this Saturday
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If you'll be around Pittsburgh Saturday, September 13, please stop by the old Salty Carrot shipwreck pavilion (the big blue slide) in Frick Park. I'll be part of Alphabet Trail and Tales from 10:00 - 1:00, reading & painting and telling…
Davy Jones
book promotion, character design, illustration processMore from P is for Pirate as we count down to Talk Like a Pirate Day, September 19th! I'll be presenting a pirate program at Adams Memorial Library in Latrobe, PA, Friday & Saturday September 19th & 20th.
Here is D is for Davy Jones…
Captain Kidd’s ice bucket challenge
book promotion, illustration processWe're still celebrating the release of P is for Pirate and the countdown to Talk Like A Pirate Day (September 19th).
Today I've got sketches and a few work-in-progress photos of Captain William Kidd. Kidd wasn't a particularly good pirate—as…
Edward Teach
book promotion, illustration processAs a follow-up to my last post about Queen Anne's Revenge, here is the man himself—the terrible Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach. I show him in close-up so you can see the slow-match fuses he used to weave into his whiskers and set alight before…
