Wake up, turkeys!
Thumbnail sketch, tight sketch and final painting for the opening spread of Turkey Day.
Entries by johnmanders
Herr Baron von Manders
I needed an instant ancestor for a great old picture frame.
Tomb it may concern
I 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
Here’s the sketch and painting (still on the easel) for the endpaper art from Where’s My Mummy?
More Mummy cover sketches
Back 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 painting.
Putting words into the Mummy pictures
One 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, that look is considered old-fashioned, and it’s up to the […]
October PSInside
The new PSInside just hit the newsstands!
Where’s My Mummy? jacket sketches
. . . . . . 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 I call tight sketches. Caroline Lawrence, the art director, liked the […]
Two animators I know
Back 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 for entry positions in graphic design, not necessarily for animation careers. Pete was […]
So I’m at this restaurant…
…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, sir, but we can’t give out recipes. A recipe […]
