As I was checking my feeds a couple days ago and I find an interesting yet scary blog title, “Save Jon Engle”. Designer ripped off and sued for $18,000 over his own artwork!” Wow I thought without even reading into the blog, that has to be one of the worse designer/artist nightmares I can think of.
Here is the link to Jon’s original post but you might not get through right now as his server is down due to overload.
As I read his article about how he was not only ripped off, but being pursued over his own artwork I felt my blood boiling. My brain was going a million miles an hour thinking about how I need to protect myself, what I would do etc. As I read comments on the blog I was amazed at the support he was getting after only a couple days. To be honest since I ready this plea for help a couple days ago it has been festering in the back of my mind. How could this happen? I know life sucks sometimes and our legal system is more than corrupt at times as well but this is nuts!
To my surprise and almost relief I ran across another article on this subject that I believe is possibly shedding light on this matter.
I feel somewhat assured that I can now drop my torch and hop off of the Jon Engle support wagon as that last article seems to expose a bit more on this story. I plan on keeping an open fair mind for now, as I dont feel it has been revealed for sure who is right here. It is apparent that someone is lying big time! All I know is that for designers and myself alike, I want justice served.

“Little Things” is the subject for illustration Friday this week. I was pretty excited because I drew these last week and they just so happen to fit the subject perfectly. I wanted to make simple little character designs of my puppy Leo. He is in fact a “little thing” and these are also capturing him doing the cute “little things” that he does!

So there is literally an hour and 1/2 till the Illustration Friday subject changes BUT I made it! This week it was zoo and here is my contribution!

This is extreme right? I just wanted a good excuse to do a fun Halloween illustration. DJ Scratch’n Skelly