My favorite part of any gig is when the printed samples arrive. It’s especially gratifying when I get to do the design on the piece as well as the illustration. I’m always given complete creative freedom on the Westmont Christmas Festival collateral, and it’s a fun challenge to come up with a design theme that [...]

For the third year now, I had the pleasure of illustrating and designing the poster/theme art for the Westmont Christmas Festival series of concerts. Yesterday, they experienced a new record: two of the three shows completely sold out the day the tickets became available! It all begins with the sketch. Ballpoint pen on post-it note. [...]

Just a quick note for any of you on Twitter—after seeing how many illustrators are conversing and sharing their work there, I figured it was time to jump in. Come follow me over at http://twitter.com/scottdraws. I won’t begin to tell you how long it took for me to find a Twitter username that wasn’t taken; [...]