About Harrison (How) Howard

I didn’t start drawing to become an artist. I started because I needed to make sense of things.

 

As a kid, I’d sit sketching on a suitcase while chaos moved around me. Youngest of six. Constantly in motion. I grew up traveling — living with families in Honduras, sketching in the Bolivian jungle, losing teeth 7yo at Machu Picchu, drawing Mayan and Incan temples, ancient stone sculptures thousands of years old.

 

These are the moments that shaped me.

 

In high school, we traveled less. I struggled to keep up — still using dial-up internet until 2011. I spent most of my time at the library. That’s when I discovered graphic design, and decided to pursue it. I worked at a T-shirt print shop. Started a whiteboard animation business. Learned that design could be powerful.

 

By college, I was freelancing, interning, and living off caffeine and sketchbooks. But the itch for travel never left.

Design school was screen time. So much screen time. Deadlines. Portfolio reviews. I passed mine — then dropped out.

I hiked Patagonia. Learned to surf in Panama. That changed everything.

 

Eventually, I finished my design degree. Flew through internships and junior roles, and became Lead Creative at a nature-based tech startup in Santa Cruz.
seemed perfect

Then I quit again.

To draw. To write a book.

To reconnect with the part of me that wasn’t staring at a screen all day.

That book became DRAW the GREAT OUTDOORS!

 

Everything I do now is about connecting — with nature, with art, with people.

Drawing helps me hold on to the present just a little longer. Because I know it’s all temporary. The beauty. The chaos. The sketch in the sand before the tide takes it.

 

I bring that same care and curiosity into everything I make 

 

Right now find me living out of Airbnbs, drawing my way around the world, sharing the journey online.

I have no idea where this is all headed. But that’s what makes it worth it!