IT'S FUN TO STAY AT THE YMCA FUNDRAISER

Hey.

Whatcha doin' this Saturday night?

Wanna see some comedy?

Wanna see some drawing?

Wanna help raise some money?

Then come on out here:

I'll be drawing to the comedy stylings of

Grant Lyon!

HOORAY!

PROFILES IN SKETCHBOOKS

So a couple weeks ago 

Disney TV Animation 

treated us all to a new sketchbook.

Actually, it's more of 

a notebook or journal 

since it's filled with lined paper.

So what to do with it?

I dunno.

Maybe draw a character in profile

EVERY DAY?

Here are a couple from my first couple weeks:

The only rules are that it has to be quick:

And it has to be a profile:

It's fun coming up with daily exercises

to keep yourself drawing.

Don't worry if you don't like it.

Just move on to the next page.

It's not like you're getting graded.

Just shut up and draw something.

ANYTHING.

OKAY, CAN WE JUST BAG LUNCH?

Kids like these 

need fun drawings 

on their lunch bags

or their faces will stay like this

FOREVER!

So yeah,

I draw on their lunch bags:

But sometimes you gotta say,

"Draw on yo own dang lunch!"

Hopefully your kids' faces are normal

and you don't have to draw on their lunch bags.

IT'S GOT THAT OLD SKETCHBOOK SMELL

Dang son,

I can't seem to get through sketchbooks

like I used to!

There are just too many

sooper secret projects

happening!

Hopefully I'll be able to tell you 

about some of them soon!

In the meantime,

let's dial the

wayback machine

to early 2006

and

take a peeksie

through

this:

This was around the time

Head Writer of Wrongs 

Andy Rheingold and I were

getting close to finishing up

writing stories for

season six of KND.

Yeah,

it was kind of stressful.

Back then I wasn't drawing much.

I was mainly beating out stories

over and over again

until the structure felt right.

Here's an early stab at

Operation: CARAMEL

Tick tick tick...

Here's an very early start to

Operation: GIRLFRIEND:

And here's a space sausage:

Before I even knew

Wow Wow Wubbzy

creator

Bob Boyle,

I already thought he 

rocked:

True this:

A visit to Nickelodeon:

My heart gets all smooshy when I 

find stuff like this in old

sketchbooks:

On the other hand,

I have 

ABSOLUTELY

NO

POOPIN'

IDEA

what this 

letter is in 

reference to:

And yes,

this sketchbook was 

powered by

Scramble Energy:

I love saving passages from books I like and 

taping them into sketchbooks.

Not sure if this was before or after

OPERATION: NAUGHTY:

Billy Wilder rules the school:

I really liked reading

Shaman King

in 

Shonen Jump.

And I still think this spread,

with all it's diverse characters,

is pure milk chocolate:

Before my iPhone,

this was how I kept track of things

I needed to do:

WTF?

Thor Bunny?

This 

STILL

makes me 

giggle:

And finally,

it's always a good idea to

write down things your kids say

because

ADORABLE:

And that's all I got for ya.

Wouldn't it be nice if I could show you a

NEWLY FINISHED

sketchbook 

in the next 5 years?!

I'll work on it.