Book By Its Cover » Sketchbook Series: Mike Lowery

5.9.08

Mike Lowery’s goal is to draw or write something in his journal every single day. If he misses a day, he said he has to do at least two pages. He’s been filling moleskins for the past three years with his adorable characters, fun drawings and little comics as you can see from the images below. Mike recently joined the Lilla Rogers team- an agency known for it’s eclectic talented illustrators (We at Also are actually working on a revamp of their site right now). Mike is also a graphic design and illustration teacher at an art college in DC. He lives just outside the city with his wife Rachel and his “ridiculously awesome daughter, Allister”. Check out Mike’s site to see more of his work- he posts entries from his journal almost every day. And be sure to catch his weekly comic in the dcist Thanks Mike!

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16 Comments

05/9/08 3:08pm

Arden wrote

this is amazing work. cute characters. I love mount fugi! I set up to do this a while ago but failed after about a week.

05/10/08 4:56am

Esti wrote

So well organized. So good. So cool.

05/10/08 7:27am

mwt. wrote

I love this site. The only problem I have is that we’re unable to enlarge these images to see the little details within each page shown.

05/10/08 3:31pm

julia Rothman wrote

thanks mwt- in order for me to be able to have so many images in each post they need to be fairly small. I’m sorry that sometimes it’s hard to see details but you can just go to the artist’s website where he has plenty of better images of his work. : )

05/10/08 11:20pm

ksklein wrote

can i have one of the moleskines? or maybe two?
;)

05/11/08 9:56pm

Sticker & Donuts wrote

These are sooo cute. I esp love the bunny man!

05/12/08 5:48am

Jennifer wrote

Love these! Especially: the french press, the birdcages, the buildings in norway, and mount fuji! And Chester. Oh, and the keyboards.
I’m the proud owner of one of his firefly in a jar drawings so it’s cool to see those sketches as well.

05/12/08 8:50am

Pale Rider wrote

I’m also impressed with this guy’s work. It’s like he has his finger on my “aaawwww, how cute!” button. Keep up the great work TML.

05/12/08 2:59pm

rachel wrote

niiice work! And I found a tee on the site that I really, really want.

05/13/08 1:02am

Amy@Pikaland wrote

Go Mike! :)

05/14/08 7:19am

AiW STUDENT JOC wrote

hey this guys a great artist and he’s also a great teacher!!!!!!

05/15/08 9:53am

risa da marburg wrote

i had no idea you are a journal kind of guy. maybe next time I’m at your place I’ll search through your bookshelf or pile of work and find your journal to see more of your drawings

05/16/08 9:53am

doane paper blog » Mike Lowerys Sketchbooks wrote

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05/18/08 8:43am

leonor almeida wrote

This scketchbooks inspire me. Thanks!

05/20/08 8:50am

Amanda Carroll wrote

These characters stick out in my mind…Great personification.

08/8/08 2:11pm

lido pimienta wrote

my favorite.

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