Sketching in Paris

I mentioned my 2007 trip to Paris in my last Sketchbook Video. So the sketchbook I used during my trip is featured in my latest episode (I like how that sounds. I guess I’m a video podcaster now). It’s a Paris Moleskine City notebook. I highly recommend...

On-Demand Creativity

My second sketchbook video features my followup pocket Moleskine from 2007ish (unlike the first one, I didn’t date my sketches). I remember this time vividly. I loved the idea of having sketchbooks full of colourful works of art however I ended up forcing myself...

Sketchbook Videos

I’ve been sketching in sketchbooks for years now and have them all sitting on a few shelves. No one will able to see any of my sketches unless they came over and flipped through the sketchbooks. Even if someone wanted to, it most likely wouldn’t happen...

Android and RSS as 50s Sci-Fi

The third release in my “tech joke” cover ebook series is 1950s short sci-fi story, The Stutterer by R.R. Merliss. My goal with the series is to create ebooks with illustrative covers of literature in the public domain. I design the covers using comparable...

Steampunk cover for Wired Love

The second book I illustrated and released as an ebook in my “tech joke” series was Wired Love by Ella Cheever Thayer. First published in 1879, it’s about a female telegraph operator who falls in love with a male telegrapher over the wire. Yup, chat...

Moby Dick as Twitter Fail Whale

Over the next few days, I’ll be blogging about the inspiration and decisions behind the 3 ebooks covers I illustrated, assembled into actual ebooks and launched last week. The gimmick here is I choose public domain books available on Project Gutenberg and...