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Here’s another sketch from my Sketchbook Project project. It’s a sketch of a really wrinkly dog with lots and lots of folds, but absolutely no stitches. That I know of.

Way back on April 6, 2007, I received an email from a publisher that I won’t mention the name of here. I thought I finally got a bite after all those postcards I had been sending out. Here was what she wrote: “Thank you for your interest in working with [us]. We have several projects that we feel match your …

Part of the payback for creating a sketchbook for the Art House Coop (The Brooklyn Art Library) is that they scan every page of your sketchbook and upload them for the whole world to see. They’ve finished scanning all of my pages, and here’s the link to the digitized version: http://www.arthousecoop.com/library/6123 If you’re unfamiliar with the Sketchbook Project, here’s a post …

Here’s the finished Frankenstein page of my Sketchbook Project. This is the center spread, so what you’re seeing down the middle is the tied-off end of the string from where I bound the book. Another green Frank. The only reason I can think of that my Frankensteins are green is because Herman had a bit of a greenish tint to …

Here’s the next page in my Sketchbook Project for the Art House Co-op and the Brooklyn Art Library. This illustration marks the center spread which means he’s also standing on the halfway-through-the-sketchbook page. If you missed what this little project is all about, here’s the post that explains all the details.

And here’s that little baseball player dude in color (for the Sketchbook Project 2012 sketchbook). He’s wearing red and white, of course, because those were my high school‘s colors.

Here’s my next sketch in my Sketchbook Project sketchbook. He’s a baseball player (duh). I wasn’t sure at first if I should put a name on his back or not. I’ve sort of decided he plays for a high school team, so I’m going to leave the name off.

O.K. Well. There you go. A little background, shall we? I was working afternoon shift in Greensburg, Pennsylvania (noon-8 pm) quite a number of years ago, when I ran across some announcement somewhere that a kid’s writer would be giving a free talk at our local college where I happened to be enrolled as a student. He was there to talk to the Masters …

Here’s the next page in my Sketchbook Project 2012 sketchbook. It’s an elephant. With wrinkles.

The next page in my Sketchbook Project sketchbook is a little tubby elephant. O.K. Maybe he’s a big tubby elephant, but in the sketchbook he’s actually quite small as elephants go. He has folds, of course, because “Stitches and Folds” is my theme.

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been working my tail off getting books out to reviewers and submitting for awards. One of the reviewers I sent to (Midwest Book Review) requires a press kit along with their review copies, so I had to back up a little and work on all that in the middle of a ton of mailings. Let’s …

Here’s the second page (not including the title page) of my Sketchbook Project 2012. He’s a butler. With a towel. Click the image to see it biggie-sized.