My First Book
on April 24, 2018
I came across a cache of some of my earliest drawings and I thought I would share them with you. It’s fun to reconnect with early work, it gives you a perspective of how far you’ve come. This is the first book I ever created – I spruced up some grade school assignment with a cover and drawings. The book featured different breeds of dogs including the Greyhound, the Great Dane, Pekingese, Collie, Poodle and Chow. It was made with color marker on poster board and the interior drawings were pencil on typewriter paper. The whole book was stapled along the left edge. And it’s full of dogs, too. Gorr would approve!
Love it, Mark! Thanks for sharing, I think it’s great to see old stuff.
Some people think you should eliminate all that work that’s not so good, but I don’t. Each bad drawing is a stepping stone that leads you to your better work.
What a wonderful find! I love that you shared this with us 🙂
It’s fun to look at that early work. I barely remember drawing it, but I have little flashes of being excited when I was coloring that cover.
Those are pretty good!
Thanks, Peter. It was a start. The cover is closer to how I was actually drawing then. There’s the faintest resemblance to an actual dog.