Don’t forget the cranberries
book promotion, illustration processAnother set of thumbnails, tight sketches and finished art from Turkey Day! The text called for a turkey marching band—so naturally they had to be from Cranberry High School, right?
Dancing turkey
book promotion, illustration processAnother scene from Turkey Day—three thumbnail sketches, one tight sketch and the final of a turkey ballerina.
Turkeys on a bus
book promotion, illustration processMore from Turkey Day—thumbnail sketch, tight sketch and finished painting.
Notice the difference between the tight sketch and the painting. I left out the stop sign and pushed the red car to the left so that nothing important is in the…
Wake up, turkeys!
book promotion, illustration processThumbnail sketch, tight sketch and final painting for the opening spread of Turkey Day.
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,…
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…
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…
