The Yeti project was simple and fun. And that’s all that it is meant to be. Just hanging around outside… with Yeti’s. If playing outside is fun, wouldn’t it be even more fun with a Yeti?
This project means a lot to me. The winter scene was the first thing I drew after a few months without creating anything. One day, while sitting through a long boring meeting, I sketched the basis of the winter scene. The idea formed through a series of scribbles with no real forethought... but the notion of kids not being afraid of big hairy beasts stuck with me and I ran with it.
For a while I thought this series got me out of my funk because it seemed simple and easy. Looking back, I wonder if I was sub consciously thinking about how big scary things are not something we always have to run away from and that maybe kids are better at figuring this out than adults.
Even with these reflections, the theme of this series is about having fun and sometimes a big hairy monster can make things even more fun!