want to hear a sound I make?

That's the opening line from a children's book I'm currently working on with the lovely Jennifer Coughlin. She describes her inspiration and motivation for writing here. I suggest reading in her own words, because I just spent the last ten minutes trying to summarize and it was a total failure. There's too much to be said about the time we spend in front of a screen, our disconnection with nature, and the damaging psychological effects of all the those trends - how it impacts our happiness and our relationships... not to mention taking care of this beautiful place we live in - but why would we care if we never learn to love or understand it? see? It gets ranty really fast - short breaths and incomplete sentences...

so I'll stick to drawing.

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These are pencil drawings that I've been workin' on the past couple weeks. I'll be diving into the color phase very shortly. So excited!