I’m sure I’m not the first to think of this one, but I felt compelled to make it anyway. Maurice Sendak’s books and drawings have had an unquantifiable influence on the work I make everyday. He was a master.
So: thank you, Mr. Sendak, as you sail off to rule as the wildest thing of them all.
I’ve been toiling away at many many busy projects, and I’m finally popping my head up to go out to Toronto for this year’s TCAF. It’s the best thing of its kind every year, and I love it so much I can’t describe. I’m sitting at table 153, back by the base of the stairs, beside the lovely wishing pond and several good friends, and potential new friends, like a few of the Adventure Time fellas!
I’ll have gobs of things (assuming I get all my baggage to come all the way to Toronto with me) such as: new t-shirts, new doodle/activity books (plus a DELUXE edition), a new mini-comic, new buttons (and how!), a reprint of my Three Bears comic along with the usual pile of gorgeous prints from Cloudy Collection, a few original drawings, and maybe some on-the-spot custom doodles, just for you?
On Sunday afternoon, May 6, I’ll be doing a tag-team Simple Characters drawing workshop for kids with Melissa Mendes. Come find us on the second floor from 3:45-4:30!
I love this show. It really is the most fun I have at this type of thing. I come home exhausted, but so thoroughly inspired to make more stuff, which is great, since I’ll be working on my next book with Kids Can Press for the rest of the summer!
(via TCAF 2012! • David Huyck’s illustration & design: cloudy/co llc)
Post-it doodle. I just got the new Nancy collection, and it’s awesome.
Well, this is some of the earliest art I’ve posted here. I can’t remember the exact year I did this drawing, but I’m thinking 1990 or so - the summer between jr. high an high school. My friend Scott’s parents gave us the walls of their drywalled garage to draw a mural onto. Scott had some books from the Dick Tracy movie and the Tim Burton Batman movie, so I drew some of our favorite characters up on the walls, and Scott and I colored them in.
Scott emailed recently to let me know his parents were replacing the garage, but that they had saved some of the art in the process - obviously some kind of investment. Someday they can sell the drawings and take their earnings all the way to a Walgreens to buy a pack of gum.
Moebius was a genius. I drew this for Ryan Sands’s quick tribute.
P.S. Here is the original.
I’m working on character styling for the next book I’m illustrating. It’s about kids.
