A rare peek inside an illustrator's process- YOU WILL BE MY FRIEND! by Peter Brown

So my daughter's Open House and Book Fair was tonight at her school and like a good parent I *cough* skipped class and went to that instead.  (Ever tried reasoning with a six year old that you have to miss her event because you have class?  Yeah, I wasn't winning that argument anytime soon, and I could use the night "off" anyway.)  While there, I found and fell in love with a new book for bedtime-

YOU WILL BE MY FRIEND! by Peter Brown

This little charmer, at once funny and visually captivating, had to come home with this second semester graphics tech student...and imagine my delight when I went to the amazon.com page for this book out of curiousity and found a photo blog of Mr. Peter Brown's process in creating the very images I was fascinated with!!   Now I can be even more fascinated and know just what I'm looking at too.  I'm enthralled and educated, and feeling justified in skipping class.  Perhaps that last part isn't such a good lesson, but oh well, it is what it is :P 

Photo blog of the creative process here below the heading Editorial Reviews. 

Has anyone else ever been "naughty" and had something wonderful result? 

Is this good for the brain? (and does it really matter?)

At least three times in the past week I've had a conversation with someone about what I'm currently studying, how many classes I'm taking, and how many computer programs I'm currently learning simultaneously.  (for the record, that would be- a- graphics technology aka graphics arts, b-5, and c-4).  Part of me thrills to the look of shock that I'm tackling that many computer programs at once- the other part of me realizes that three of those programs are Adobe based and therefore have the same skeleton so it's not like I'm learning them from the ground up.  Every once in awhile there's a little voice in my head screaming that I'm going to get it all mixed up and start confusing my Flash with my Dreamweaver with the InDesign and lose the plot altogether.  At least I know that Painter is different enough that I'll never be confusing it with anything else, but darn it, we go and use Illustrator and Photoshop in that class occasionally, so....  So yeah, the question is, is this good for my already taxed mommy brain?  (anyone else find that keeping thoughts organized got forever harder once motherhood entered the picture?  because OMG, the past six years have been an exercise in absentmindedness!)   And really....does it even matter since I'm realistically  having more fun than I've had in a long long long time?  :)