"The GREEP is coming to chew on you!"

My little girl, Parker, is 6 years old, and she loves to tickle and play with her daddy. One of her favorite games involves turning off all the lights in the bedroom (when it's dark outside), shutting the door so no light comes in, and trying to avoid me as I pretend to be a monster/dinosaur/fiend who's trying to eat her. I gave my monster an off-the-cuff name the other night: the Greep. It's also the sound the Greep makes as it stalks it's prey: "Greep, greep!"

She wanted to sit down with me and draw what the Greep looks like, so we each sketched out what we were seeing in our heads as we played. So, these are our versions of the Greep. Guess which belongs to whom...

SOME NEW INKED PAGES...

Couple of pages I just got done inking and scanning. Will be coloring these this weekend. Results to follow
First is the cover of a children's book I wrote and am illustrating inspired by and starring my daughter, the amazing Parker!
Next is my version of Hop on Pop -- perhaps a bit more vicious than Suess', but, hey, they're cute widdle bunnies!
Ugh... time for bed.

IT'S A SURPRISE... SHHHH!!

Okay, don't tell her, but this is a sketch of a poster I'm going to be illustrating for my favorite little girl, my daughter Parker. Her birthday is coming up on the 24th of March (she'll be six), and I thought I'd do something artistic for her. She loves artwork, she loves rock and roll, and she loves playing Guitar Hero on Playstation (I'll have to post a video on here of her playing soon), so I thought she'd love a poster featuring herself as a Guitar Princess. Let's try and keep it a secret though, shall we? I'd like her to be surprised. I'm also planning on giving her a large colored poster featuring the planned artwork to be used as the cover of the children's book inspired by and based on her. More on that later.

"ONCE UPON A TIME... THERE WAS AN ADORABLE LITTLE GIRL NAMED PARKER..."

Here's a few pre-inked drawings from the interior of the children's book I'm writing and illustrating, based on my muse, my daughter Parker. She'll be six later this month, and she's quite an amazing little girl. The working title of the book as of now is "What Parker Thought She'd Rather Be", and it concerns Parker wishing she were other things besides a little girl. The things she wishes she were instead were plucked from her own active imagination and include things like a godzilla-like dinosaur, a robot, a pirate, a rock'n'roll star, etc. The book follows the pattern of Parker wishing she were something else, noting the cool things she'd be able to do in that form with her parents countering with the downside to each. In the end, Parker decides that perhaps being a little girl is best after all. Awww. More on this as it develops. Now, over to Kent in the weather center...