dave walston illustration

I’ll be taking on another Ni Hao, Kai-lan book for Simon and Schuster starting monday.

just did a caricature of a friend, Rochi.

This is the cover I did for a new book. Since it’s up for sale on Amazon, it should be OK to show it here now.

I hope I can show the actual characters soon, but since they haven’t been released yet, here are some sketches I did for the main character that were NOT accepted.

I’ve been working away on finishing up some books as well as doing some more graphic work for the Patent law books for Bob Fish. Hopefully I’ll be able to resolve this soon.

Going to be doing a few more comic strips as well as some more book illustrations over the next month.

This news is a few weeks old, but I finally finished the two Ni Hao, Kai-lan books I had been working on. One was a full color 24 page book based on an upcoming show. The other was a 48 page coloring book based on the same episode.

Then I’ve been putting a lot of time in character design for a new project. Next week, a Dora cover will start as well.

I’m developing a new character set for a long term multi-book project. The author is unknown as of yet, but the project looks like it could be a lot of fun and …. i get to work with my old friend, Kathy Keys, whom I used to work with when she was at LeapFrog years ago. I always loved working with Kathy so I’m glad to have reconnected with her, made another contact AND… gotten more work.

If it weren’t for her, i’m not sure I would have taken on the project, only because I’m absolutely swamped at the present with two Ni Hao, Kai-lan books. But I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to work with her again.

I have done the covers for the two Ni Hao, Kai-lan books. I’m working on interior sketches for one and waiting word to proceed on another. Also just did one comic strip for a new Patent Beast series.

hoo-boy, been a while since i’ve updated the site, so here’s what’s been happening….

been working on colorizing some of the older patent beast strips for some new iterations of Bobs Book. He then asked me to make the graphics he had in the book match the artwork, so i redid all those.

also have started new strips for the patent beast series, and will have those to do over the coming months.

I also got a new Kai-lan project from Random House and just today got a second Kai-lan from Simon and Schuster. So all in all, life and work has been pretty busy. Maybe i can post some pics soon enough.

Uploaded the new 2010 logo version for the website.

Every year I’ve experimented with different lettering types and treatments, but keeping more or less the same layout and colors. Here is the version for the new year.

God bless and thanks for all the work over this last year. Hope to continue working with all of you in the new year.

dave