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Day: September 14, 2018

AppleTree marathon artwork color full-josh cleland

Illustration process video for Appletree Marathon artwork

September 14, 2018

If you’ve ever been curious about the illustration process, I made a time-lapse video showing the creation from beginning to … Read more

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A little board book I illustrated recently. Like many of you, I’m feeling quite melancholy this 4th of July. But I do love this country, and remain hopeful that we will see better days. Plus, we have really good ice cream. 😊 Happy 4th of July! Published by @simonandschuster

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Jun 30

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#JuneCharacterADay day 30: Lemur helping someone. It’s the final day!!! Congratulations to everyone who participated 🎉🎈🎂 I hope you had fun and created some characters that you’re proud of. Remember, you can always go back and revise the characters that you like, and explore them further. I’ll be doing that for a few of these.

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Jun 29

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#JuneCharacterADay day 29: Lion eating ice cream. Just one more day to go!!!

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#JuneCharacterADay day 28: Gorilla riding a tricycle. It’s the last couple of days. Let’s finish strong 💪!

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#JuneCharacterADay day 27: Chameleon marching in a parade. I can’t believe there’s only a few days left! It’s been amazing seeing everyone’s fun characters. It’ll be sad when it’s over.

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Jun 26

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#JuneCharacterADay day 26: Wildebeest flying with balloons. I think this may be a good start to a birthday card 😊.

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#JuneCharacterADay day 25: Anteater tap-dancing. Unfortunately I haven’t had a lot of time this week to work on these due to upcoming deadlines, but doing my best 😊.

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#JuneCharacterADay day 24: sloth sprinting.

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Jun 23

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I used today’s #JuneCharacterADay prompt during a live character design class I held this afternoon. It was about of fun! If you’re interested in future webinars sign up in my bio.

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Jun 22

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#JuneCharacterADay day 22: zebra archaeologist.

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Jun 21

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#JuneCharacterADay day 21: Jelly Fish on a walk.

Here’s next week’s posts. So fun seeing everyone’s awesome characters 😃. Keep ‘em coming!

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Jun 20

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#JuneCharacterADay day 20: Shark doing taxes. The ocean’s best accountant!

A little behind-the-scenes using my @xencelabs 24” tablet.

Join in on the fun. It’s not too late! I’ll post next week’s prompts tomorrow (or just look at my previous posts).

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Jun 19

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#JuneCharacterADay day 19: Parrot Trick-or-Treating. I ran out of time to fully color this one up, but it’s definitely on my to-do list!

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Jun 18

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#JuneCharacterADay day 18: Penguin zip lining. I kind of wish I would’ve picked this song for yesterday’s drawing 🤣.

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Jun 17

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#JuneCharacterADay day 17: Alligator hang gliding.

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#JuneCharacterADay day 16: Water buffalo brushing teeth.

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#JuneCharacterADay day 15: Raccoon procrastinating.

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Jun 14

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#junecharacteraday day 14: Bear doing Pilates. I’m also posting this coming week’s prompts. Enjoy! 😃

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#junecharacteraday day 13: Deer playing a banjo.

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#JuneCharacterADay day 12: Steller’s Jay drawing. Happy Friday! Wishing you all a fun, creative weekend.

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