Here’s the establishing shot for Let’s Have A Tree Party! Just like in a movie, the establishing shot at the beginning lets the reader know where the story takes place. In this case we’re in the woods at the base of Grandpa Crow’s tree. Let’s look at the thumbnail sketch, tight sketch, painting in progress […]
Soon after the Mini Mashers project I was given the Mini Ninja project. Same idea: teensy weensy plastic dolls sold in sets of 4, 8 and 12. I guess Remco liked the Mini Masher origin story; at any rate I was asked to write one for the Mini Ninja. This time around I thought it […]
Oh dear, time does fly. Back in my feckless youth I had a design studio in the happening SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. I took on any project that came my way, both design and illustration. An advertising agency I’d been working with got a packaging design job from Remco, the toymaker. Professional wrestling had become […]
Here’s another title I have coming out in March—Jack and the Giant Barbecue. It’s Eric Kimmel‘s update of the Jack and the Beanstalk story set in west Texas. West Texas, you said? Cue the Elmer Bernstein music! Here we go: thumbnail sketch, tight sketch (originally a single page, art director Anahid Hamparian saw the epic […]
A thoughtful discussion of the pros/cons of enhanced e-books for kids. Laura Miller covers fiction in this article and will talk about non-fiction in her next. I’m looking forward to that. Thanks for sending me the link, Christina!
Here’s the scene in Let’s Have A Tree Party! where the animals bunny hop across a branch. You’ll notice the thumbnail sketch shows a bird’s-eye view. Art director Maryellen Hanley asked me to change the direction of the branch so it would be moving uphill as you read left-to-right. While I was at it I […]
The January issue of PSInside arrived—including a well-written article by my pal Fred Carlson about the illustration business in this economy.
Let’s Have A Tree Party! hits the bookstores in March. Here’s a very nice review from Publishers’ Weekly for you to read while you’re waiting.
My pal Mary Nethery alerted me to this latest review of The Famous Nini.
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 43,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 16 sold-out performances for that many […]
