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Stephen Gilpin lives and works in a cave just North of Hiawatha, KS with his wife Angie, their kids and an infestation of dogs.

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Designing in black and white...

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Hey everybody! Here's some stuff I've been working on recently.  I wanted to put the pieces together to see how they looked-- kind of like when you step back from a painting to see if you've got the proportions correct.   These are all shirt designs for a line of t-shirts that I'm going to be producing out of my shop.  I'm pretty excited about them.  I think I'm going to do some more with this series, but I'm not sure what to do next.
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Read Aloud Book Award

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Hey guys!   What to Do When You're Sent to Your Room  won the Comstock Read Aloud Book Award for 2015!  I'm pretty encouraged by it.  Now the book gets a gold sticker on the cover.
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Cartooning Class #3-- Drawing...

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3. Don't take drawing for granted. It's deep. It can blow your mind if you let it. Please know that I respect other approaches to drawing. I just go with what I think is best. It follows that to me, my way of drawing and thinking about drawing is the best. But that’s just me. I say that because I know I’m going to get a little heavy-handed here. Ahem. Remember that the drawing BEGINS in your mind, so don’t limit yourself at the beginning by small thinking. Drawing isn’t really about rendering something in 2 dimensions. I haven’t seen anything in the real world that is totally and completely flat (don’t argue with me here, I’m trying to make a point). Even a “flat” piece of paper becomes a dynamic form when you pick it up off the table. It bends and moves. Everything exists in some kind of space, and since the human imagination has the capacity to deconstruct and transcend what we know as “reality” we ought not limit ourselves to two dimensions-- especially this ear...
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