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Comic helping educate French students

 
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Éditions Nathan, a French publisher contacted me back in February about purchasing the rights to one of my comics to print in an English textbook for 14 year old French students. Well, the book has been published and I got my copy in the mail today. The comic appears on the top of page 33 (seen above). It’s funny to see people from around the world contact me about acquiring the right to my work just from finding on my blog. To get a better look at the comic you can check out the original post here that sparked the request. It’s a shame I didn’t retain the French I leaned back when I was a 14 year old student. Then I would of had an easier time communicating with this company. Maybe I just needed a more interesting textbook with cool illustrations in it like this one.
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Photo Op

This is a snapshot I took Friday morning of the road across the street from my house. I was about to hop in my car and head out for work when I saw the sun starting to break thru the haze; So I grabbed the camera and fired off this shot.

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Illustration Friday - Canned

I dusted off an old illustration which seemed fitting for this week’s IF topic.

 

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Student Sketches

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These rough sketches are ideas I was sketching out for a university student computer services t-shirt design. The project was tabled before I got too far with it. But I thought I’d share these drawings anyway. I’m certainly due for a post here.

Also Drinking and Drawing - Boston II is coming up this Wednesday, June 18th. If you’re in the Boston area I suggest you check it out. I’ll have a full update here afterwards.

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eSyllabus marketing

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Here’s an illustration I created for part of a campaign letting college faculty know about the eSylabus web repository coming out this Fall.

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Illustration Friday - Seed

IF - Seed

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Saint Paddy’s Day email graphic

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Much like the one posted below, here’s the illustration I did for the Saint Patrick’s Day email going out to BC faculty.  

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Valentine

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Here’s an illustration I whipped up this week for use in an html email going out to BC faculty reminding them about the CMS change next semester. There will be more of these holiday themed comics.  Next up; one for St. Patrick’s Day.

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Illustration Friday - Plain

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Happy New Year

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Illustration Friday - Soar

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Seasons Greetings

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teaching awards poster - sketches

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Here is an illustration I’m working on for a poster design mockup. It’s for the Boston

College, Teaching with New Media Awards (TWiN) nominations poster.

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IF: Excess

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Here’s my entry for this weeks Illustration Friday topic, Excess. My 2 year old daughter was inspiration for this one. She’s an overflowing source of inspiration these days so why not take advantage. Now these aren’t things you’d think one could OD on, but leave it to Allie, she sure tries to. It’s a common thing these days to hear her ask things like “Draw Daddy, draw. please. Daddy, draw” or ” More milk please, daddee melk pleess”. With that said; as you might imagine I am proud of her for wanting to overdue it on these things. I still can’t believe how much she loves broccoli. Although we do have to be extra careful hiding the crayons cuz she likes to draw wherever and whenever she can. Thank you Crayola for coming up with the washable crayon!

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Holiday Card

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Here’s the graphic for the front of a holiday card I’m sending out to family and friends this year.  The three people with goofy grins on their faces happen to be me, my wife and our two year old daughter.  

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SFG: Flight

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Here is my crank at this weeks Sugar Frosted Goodness challenge: Flight. It was an opportunity to continue my experimentation with different tools/ techniques. Been itching to break away from the straight vector stuff. This one was drawn completely in Photoshop.

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TWiN Awards Poster Mockup

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Here’s the first mockup of a (24″ x 39.5″) poster design I am working on for the 2008 Teaching with New Media Awards nominations.

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Pats Sketches

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Here’s some Patriots sketches I whipped up for a prospective client.

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New Site Launched

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Yes, my new website has finally arrived. I started out trying to build it in Drupal thinking it would allow me to do more with it and create an easy to manage site. But after hours of time and getting really deep into I realized it wasn’t going to make anything easier and it’s not necessary for what I was doing. So I bailed on that and just put it together the quick and dirty way with basic html & css. It’s still a work in process and could use some beefing up, but at least it’s up. Now I can shift my attention back on the work itself and finally start posting some new drawings.
 

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Hungry Giraffe

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Here’s an illustration I whipped up for my 22 month old daughter. She’s really into giraffes these days and now that she’s talking we like to play a game where she calls out something  and I draw it. Or sometimes I draw it and she tells me what it is. In most cases it involves a magnadoodle or a sketch pad and crayons (that way she can add to the drawings too). This one is much more polished than that and is something she can hang on her wall.

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