VOTE!

Some sketches while I waited for a certain candidate to visit Cincinnati yesterday, here in this swingin' swing state. Below is my cousin Emma studying for history.... while experiencing history.




"If our job teaches us anything, it's that we don't know what the next President's gonna face. And if we choose someone with vision, someone with guts, someone with gravitas, who's connected to other people's lives, and cares about making them better... if we choose someone to inspire us, then we'll be able to face what comes our way and achieve things... we can't imagine yet." -Toby Ziegler

Yeah, that's from my favorite TV show, which I named my blog after, which I'm just a little obsessed with. Now go VOTE!

Illustration Friday: VACANT

The twelfth princess looked back as she left the grove with the silver leaves. She was sure she'd heard a noise, like a snapping branch. But these woods were vacant, weren't they?

One of the first picture books I remember buying with my own money was the version of The Twelve Dancing Princesses illustrated by Ruth Sanderson. Luckily, Sanderson's style is completely different from mine--realistic oil paintings with exquisite, intricate detail vs. stylized, simplified pastel drawings. Otherwise I think I'd be too intimidated to take on this story--which would've been a shame, because I had a lot of fun with this one.