At first I drew David more realistically, like I draw some of my other books. And it just sat there. It just didn’t have any of the charm or energy of the original. So, I went back to the original, and I tried drawing more like a five-year-old. And, all of a sudden, he just jumped off the page and started picking his nose.
But all the things like the pointy teeth and the hair and his little, round body that’s all from the original. The way the type is kind of scrawled that’s from the original. Whenever I got stuck on how to do anything, I just went back to the original and said, “Well, how did the five-year-old do it?”
