Doodle (Steinberg's Condo)

Doodles (Pedestrian and Driver)

Marginalia

I've been rather absent from this blog (and many other things) as I've been drawing and scanning the 170 pages of my next book, "A Secret Mercy." When my enthusiasm for inking the particular page I'm working on wanes, I often do a little drawing in the margin to satisfy the desire to be doing something without preconceptions or definable purpose. As I scanned my pages, I saved a few of these. So here's a collection:

Opener sketch

I'm starting to draw the next book (still untitled) for Henry Holt for Young Readers. Here's an almost final sketch of the opening page.