Dustin Resch, Children's Book Artist/Author

A work-in-progress sketch of Octavio the Octopus trying to blend in.

A character design test for the star of a picture-book-in-progress about Octavio (the octopus) vs. the Aliens, based on a completely true story that happened during my first night scuba dive, in Cozumel in 2017.

Contact information for the back of my postcard mailer.

I became a scuba diver for the first time in October, after a lifetime dreaming about it - so I stuck with the underwater theme for all but one day of the month.  I’m quite pleased with the results!

I became a scuba diver for the first time in October, after a lifetime dreaming about it - so I stuck with the underwater theme for all but one day of the month.  I’m quite pleased with the results!

Did you ever play that game where you scribble a random line on a diner placemat and have the other person turn that into a drawing?  I played that game all by myself on my portable Cintiq for the flight from DC to Denver one day.

An oriole, gift for my dad’s birthday.

A fun airplane sketch of some silly guys sharing a joke.

A sketch of my very young dad holding up extremely young me, showing off my oddly deft balance in comparison to my oddly giant cranium.

2015′s annual holiday card, this one in tribute to my wonderful world-building dad who we lost that year.  Far too soon, and far too loved.

Baby Chimp!

Cover thumbnail sketches, super duper rough.  Still working on these ideas.

Here are some of the rough dummy sketches for additional spreads of Gibson Can’t Swim, besides the ones I’ve fully rendered for my graduate thesis.

Gibson looking up from the bottom.  From Gibson Can’t Swim.

Gibson, Mom and Dad planning upgrades.  From Gibson Can’t Swim.

Gibson making plans.  From Gibson Can’t Swim!