I feel like my drawings have evolved over time. I think that probably happens with everyone. The more you practice at something, the better that you get and so I think that’s true with me.
Well, one of the interesting things with my drawings right now is that I’m really with the Dog Man series especially I’m really drawing through the eyes and imaginations of fourth graders and now fifth graders. So they are trying to draw in a childlike style. They’re actually looking back to what they drew when they were in kindergarten and trying to copy that. So I’m drawing through the eyes of fourth graders who are trying to draw like kindergartners and trying to also be very expressive.
So sometimes I’ll draw a picture and I’ll realize oh, I drew that too well and I have to erase it and redraw it so it’s not as sophisticated. And it’s quite a challenge actually.
Well, getting in the mindset of a 10-year-old is probably one of the easiest things for me because I’m incredibly immature. I’ve always — I always thought like a kid, and I think there’s a big part of me that’s really never grown up.
I feel like I know the characters of George and Harold so well. When they started out, they were pretty much like me. There was kind of a — I can be different people at different times as we all can. Sometimes I’m very outgoing. Sometimes I’m very quiet and shy so I took those two sides of my personality and divided them into George and Harold, but over the years they’ve grown into their own characters and I feel like I know them so well that I can kind of channel them pretty easily.