Over the course of 2017, I live drew many events and people for CBS News. I had such a blast, and look forward to 2018!
Here is a short selection from their website.
Here are a few other highlights:
Over the course of 2017, I live drew many events and people for CBS News. I had such a blast, and look forward to 2018!
Here is a short selection from their website.
Here are a few other highlights:
It was an honor to be selected as a Noteworthy Writer for Medium, a wonderful online publication started by Ev Williams, co-founder of Twitter. I have been publishing with Medium for years now, and I love the simplicity of the design and their mission statement. It is a place for my writing and drawing (together and alone) that is supportive and yet also leaves me alone to do what I feel I need to do! In the introduction to this wonderful brief video, the Medium editors say I was chosen “…for finding nuance in the news cycle, Liza sketches everything that can’t be said.” https://noteworthy.medium.com/liza-donnelly-c848c1d06ac4
Everyday, ideas present themselves. Sometimes I don’t notice them. Sometimes I have to chase them down. The best ones are ones that present themselves, I let them develop but don’t chase them. Chasing often leads to false sounding/seeming ideas. Forced.
Here is a case where I wanted to do a regular old cartoon about whatever, not political, I was open to anything. As you see from the cartoon above, it ended up being about the hurricanes we are experiencing in this country and in the islands. It may not be funny, you may think it’s stupid, doesn’t work, etc. But the process shows how it came about. In this way, I don’t think it’s forced. And it’s about a topic I eventually wanted to draw about anyway at some point: the pain and suffering we are witnessing, and the tremendous empathy we are witnessing in this country.
Here is a video of my process as I did the cartoon on my tablet (I posted this on Instagram and retreaved it a little late so the first piece is gone, sorry) Umbrella video
Here is the piece on NBCNews.com