Tomb it may concern
book promotion, illustration processI don't recall where I found this lovely little mausoleum, but I sketched it as a possible spot for the Where's My Mummy? title page.
Endpaper
book promotion, illustration processHere's the sketch and painting (still on the easel) for the endpaper art from Where's My Mummy?
More Mummy cover sketches
book promotion, illustration processBack cover of Where's My Mummy?—working out some sketch ideas, followed by the layout for the entire jacket. When an art director sends me a layout (sketch & text together in one piece of art) she's telling me to go ahead and start …
Putting words into the Mummy pictures
book promotion, illustration processOne of the challenges for a picture book illustrator is to find ways to include the text in the illustrations. In older books, the practice was to run the words along the bottom of the page and leave the illustrations free of any text. Nowadays,…
October PSInside
illustration careerThe new PSInside just hit the newsstands!
Where’s My Mummy? jacket sketches
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Only 2 weeks til Hallowe'en! How about we take a look at the thumbnail and tight sketches for the Where's My Mummy? jacket art?
The first five are thumbnail—very rough and small—sketches. The last 2 are refined—what…
Two animators I know
illustration careerBack in the days when I was a graphic design instructor at Pittsburgh Technical Institute, I had a student who was dying to be a Disney animator—Pete Mekis. Pete lived and breathed Walt Disney. PTI was designed to turn out graduates ready…
So I’m at this restaurant…
illustration career…and the guy sitting the next table over finishes his dinner. When the waiter brings him a check, the guy says "I'm afraid I won't be able to pay for this until you give me the recipe for everything I ate."
The waiter says, "I'm sorry,…
You asked for it
book promotion, illustration processAudrey, a school librarian, asked me for coloring pages from Goldie Socks and the Three Libearians.
The best I can come up with are these sketches for the front and back cover art. I illustrated this story a few years ago, before it was my…
Turkey Day
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One of my favorite books as a kid was P.D. Eastman's Go Dog. Go! I still think it's one of the best—a pared-down, simple idea with bold, direct illustrations to match. The story: dogs of a dizzying variety all travel…
