Rachel's show is one of my favourite podcasts.

Lots of Sherlock. I tried all kinds of ways to come up with a good shorthand for Cumberpatch's mouth shape, but in the end decided a simple line worked best.

Ah! The artist at work. Work, work, work. Even at home! Still, it's the best job in the world. I even have a 'storyboard director' credit with my studio. That sounds fancy.

As soon as I can get in to hook up my macbook to the scanner, I will post some more doodles.

Wow, I never update this thing!

I am a very boring person. I just work (draw) and watch telly. And go to the gym. I occasionally go on vacation (August!!). I don't even use my sketchbook anymore. Just doodle at work on post-it notes.

Just watched the new Sherlock BBC series. Can't wait for new episodes! Benedict Cumberpatch is my new favourite person. I love his Holmes. I can perfectly picture him creepily staring at John while he's sleeping.

Procrastination Sketch2

ok now back to work
Col

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Guess what?

...

I'm writing a book. With pages!

And there will be pictures on the pages. And words. And maybe the pages will be really aerodynamic or something. I haven't really decided what all of the hi-tech features are going to be yet. It's tough to choose.

Anyway, I've been wanting to tell you guys about this for a very, very long time, and now I finally can!

Touchstone (a division of Simon & Schuster) will tentatively release my book in Fall 2012, which sounds like it's a long time away, but really, it's only the gestation period of two slightly premature babies. And if you're a time-traveler, then it can be as soon as you want it to be. It can be now!

If you're not a time traveler, here are some helpful time-frame comparisons to make the book's publication date seem not as far away:

So really, it isn't actually that far away.  And I'll keep updating here in the meantime.  

The book will contain roughly 50% new material.  The other 50% will be posts I've published on this site already, but some of the posts that did not previously contain illustrations will be illustrated.  It will be basically just like my blog in book-form (illustrated short stories, guides, etc.), but it will have at least an attempt at an organizational structure, probably.  

There isn't really an appropriately climactic way to end this announcement, so here's a picture of some shapes:

mmm the smell of fresh books

This was a book I illustrated this year with Usborne , I am very happy with how it turned out. It also stirs up some grumpy emotions as well; due to a scheduling error at my old job I ended up having to do two story boards simultaneously while doing this (sigh) , but that's done now thank goodness!


For those of you in the Toronto area my friend and colleague Sam Bradley, with a group of super talented artists, have put together yet another amazing collection of stories in the Anthology Project available at TCAF. I'm totally getting my copy signed....AGAIN!
that's it for now
COL