This is the Limited(5000 copies only) 10th Anniversary Edition

Jeff's is COOL!

Making rope.

welcome to the world of ickybugman!
On this website you can learn about me, children's book illustrator, Ralph Masiello, and my unique occupation, through my artwork, books, visits to schools, and life experiences. You can see what goes into making an illustration and even get to preview new books before they are published! 

This is my most recent book. I am pretty happy about the great reviews it has been getting!

This is the upcoming new book, due sometime this Spring 2008

In DANISH!!

Congratulations to all who participated in the Dragon Drawing Contest. I will be posting the top 50 here shortly.

HERE ARE THE TOP 3 CHOSEN:




watch me create an illustration!
Play the slide show to see one of my illustrations from some rough sketches to the final illustration for a book!


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Sketch for New Book: THE MYSTIC PHYLES Coming 2009

Art for Cover of ComputerWorld Magazine. Summer 2006
 
Dragon Drawing Book...Denmark!
Mon, Feb. 11 2008
Well, today I got a set of Dragon Drawing Books from the wonderful folks at Forlaget Thorup, the publisher in Denmark who translated and printed my book in Danish. It is very cool. Click the title link above and visit their website to see for yourself!
DRAGON DRAWING BOOK NEWS
Tue, Jan. 29 2008
My Dragon Drawing Book has been in stores since July and has been doing very well. It has even been published in Denmark! I will have some copies to show here shortly. I am curious to see how the Danish lettering looks on the cover. Also check out Charlesbridge.com for results of the Dragon Drawing Contest! It was tough, but we made our final decisions and they should be posted on that site. Congratulations to ALL who participated. I will post some pictures of the art here soon.