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Making Faces
This was an illustration for Kids Discover Muscles, explaining how different muscles are used to make different facial expressions. It also serves as a guide for when I’m drawing other characters. The only drawback was that I couldn’t use kids … Continue reading
Your basic cooling tower
As warm wind pushes through a mesh of damp material it cools and falls, providing cool air and circulation. (Reader’s Digest Books for Children).
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Wind Power
An infotoon about the upside of wind power, in that it can still function when the sun goes down.
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Making the most of THE BOX for nearly twenty years. I’ve always loved listening to how people speak as opposed to what they are saying. Above is a page from a forthcoming book entitled Mutter Juice Noise Re-rhymes. If not … Continue reading
Kids Discover Chocolate
These are images (and sketches) that complement two points in Kids Discover Chocolate. The first being that chocolate is dangerous for GSD or dogs to consume, and the other that chocolate does not cause or otherwise agitate the problems related … Continue reading
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Kids Discover Presidents
An infotoon about checks and balances, and how the president needs to be accountable to many different people.
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Wind and Solar Power
This image (from Reader’s Digest Books for Children) represents the newer, cleaner energies “knocking on the door” of big oil. To get that grunge look on the door, I pulled out an old baking sheet (yes, we still use it) … Continue reading
Beeg Reever
I was asked to put together a KIDSBILL for Music Theatre of Wichita, so I decided to try something new. I saw Bryan Ballinger (breadwig.com) doing some cool stuff with Maya, so I tried to replicate it in Adobe Illustrator, … Continue reading
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What’s the matter?
In July I drew up a few goodies for Kids Discover Matter. This one dealt with with a new type of liquid that is being used as body armor. It supposedly stays in a liquid form until something strikes it, … Continue reading
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The name
When my brother and I were little we played a game that had no rules, no physical boundaries, no set time limit, and absolutely no purpose—just a lot of running. My mom just called it dogfoose because it sounded like … Continue reading
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