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. After working on several animated films, I pivoted into publishing and became an independent creator who makes comics and picture books. In 2009 I started the popular online art challenge Inktober. I’m a co-founder of SVSLearn.com an art education platform that teaches people how to become professional illustrators. I am a husband and father of five, who currently works out of my home studio in Gilbert, Arizona.
Below is a list of projects and companies I've been affiliated with:
Published work
The Little Snowplow Wishes for Snow Candlewick (October 8, 2019)
Goldilocks for Dinner Schwartz & Wade (July 30, 2019)
SkyHeart: Search for the Star Seed Self Published (September 2018)
The Twelve Sleighs of Christmas Chronicle (October 24, 2017)
Little Bot and Sparrow Roaring Brook Press (September 27, 2016)
Who's The Grossest of Them All? Schwartz & Wade (August 9, 2016)
The Little Snowplow Candlewick (October 13, 2015)
Rocket Raccoon Marvel (March 3, 2015)
The Tooth Fairy Wars Atheneum Books for Young Readers (July 15, 2014)
Nuthin' but Mech, Volume Two Design Studio Press (June 15, 2014)
Explorer: The Lost Islands Amulet Books (October 15, 2013)
The Girl Who Wouldn't Brush Her Hair Schwartz & Wade (September 10, 2013)
Nuthin' But Mech Design Studio Press (August 15, 2012)
Apples A to Z Scholastic Press (August 1, 2012)
The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man Balzer + Bray (September 6, 2011)
Flight, Volume Eight Villard (June 28, 2011)
Missile Mouse: Rescue on Tankium3 GRAPHIX (January 1, 2011)
Missile Mouse: The Star Crusher GRAPHIX (January 1, 2010)
Out of Picture 2: Art from the Outside Looking In Villard (June 3, 2008)
Flight Explorer Villard (March 25, 2008)
Flight, Volume Two Villard (April 10, 2007)
Flight, Volume One Villard (April 10, 2007)
Teaching
Owner/Instructor - SVSlearn.com (2013 - present)
Visiting Professor - Brigham Young University (2011)
Film Work
Epic Blue Sky Studios (2013)
Rio Blue Sky Studios (2011)
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Blue Sky Studios (2009)
Horton Hears a Who! Blue Sky Studios (2008)
Titan A.E. Fox Animation Studios (2000)
Clients
The Mill
Ubisoft
Bungie
Dungeons & Dragons
Bad Robot
Blue Sky Studios
Marvel
Disney Animation
Warner Brothers Animation
Psyop
Hubris Studios
Nexus Productions
Nick Magazine