Jake Parker

Join 10,000 other creatively minded people and get my weekly email inspiration boost. Subscribe to get my free creative inspiration email. Designed to help you discover the weird, the interesting, and the inspiring. I'm Jake Parker. I’m a New York Times Best Selling illustrator who started drawing long before I could form full sentences. Raised on a cultural diet of comic books, cartoons, and LEGO I dropped out of college to pursue a career in the animation industry. From the desk of Jake Parker: In a simpler age, long before the social media giants had risen from the depths of the ocean to eat away the online landscape and rule it with their algorithmic iron fist, there was a peaceful archipelago of thriving sites. I'm Jake Parker I love making stuff. When I was five years old I wrote and drew a storybook then bound it together with tape. It was my first stab at self publishing. Jake's Desk: My Weekly Newsletter; An all-ages fantasy adventure! Wake only wants one thing: to save his mother. Her soul was tragically trapped in a power-crystal during a raid on their homestead. The only chance to save her is to find and unlock the power of the Star Seed.

VIS DEV. Characters; Props/Vehicles; Environments; Layouts/Scenes; PRODUCTIONS I used Midjourney I started out with these prompts to see what I would get: Astronaut with a skull head +skull + skeleton + red spacesuit + character design + full body + red + sci-fi + star wars + Ralph McQuarrie + Jake Parker, cartoon, cartoon network, adventure time. Jake Parker (@mrjakeparker), author-illustrator of Little Bot and Sparrow, stops by the podcast to talk about the transition to when you're not needed anymore, developing positive drawing habits, and being dragged into writing for children. I implemented a "Solve Problems for Future Jake" mindset. It went like this: One spot for my wallet, keys, and sunglasses. Whenever I get home they go to that spot.