Thursday Update w/ Greg Matusic

Lots going on.

Working on a couple of books - writing and illustrating. One's for the #kidlitart Picture Book Dummy Challenge. The other is for a project that I'm pretty sure is super secret, but should be revealed/available by the end of May. There are also a couple of freelance projects to work on as well as my semi-annual web site redesign, which I'm usually psyched about but not so much this year. Still, it needs to be overhauled, updated and made more charming/accessible to reflect the current book projects. Plus, I threw a new header up on my site as well as this blog page. Doesn't really work too well. Well done, sir! :P

On the verge of purchasing a Cintiq tablet - the Cadillac of digital drawing tablets. I'm crazy excited about it. Should chop my illustrating time in half - at least. Seriously. As much as I love the effect creating/filling stylized outlines in Illustrator it's just taking too long per drawing. The Cintiq will remedy that fo shizzle.

#kidlitart chat tonight at 9pm on the Twitter. Yay!

I never like to leave you kids without a recent illustration, so here's a happy doggie...

Later, gator.

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