- Shawn Braley
- Vermont
- Award-winning illustrator Shawn Braley didn’t inherit any artistic talent from anyone in his family, so he started manufacturing his own from a very early age. His first forays into creating included large sheets of blank newsprint with markers and pencils, lovingly supplied by his grandmother, Hazel. He was so infatuated with drawing superheros, that he colored his entire left hand blue just like Batman’s gloves. He was stopped before the right hand ‘glove’ could be applied. Once he saw his first illustration printed at the age of 7 in a local newspaper supplement, Braley was smitten with the world of publishing.
Shawn, your line work is alive, kinetic. Keep all your sketches. Someday you could publish a sketchbook.
ReplyDeleteThanks Todd! I've never liked my own sketches, but I love seeing rough work from other artists. I'm actually bad about keeping ANY of my own original art, even finished stuff.
ReplyDeleteplease, please, please keep your sketches! I'm with Todd! If Henny Penny here is any indication of how they go (and the studies of cow faces and more recently of sheep) they are publishable, like Todd Said. One file cabinet. Drawers for animals, buildings,etc. with folders for sheep, cats, pigs, (waiting for this one!) and barns, churches, etc., etc. You're throwing away GOLD!!
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