The Cloud

The Cloud

First draft of thumbnail sketches/story boards for an 'almost' wordless picture book I'm working on..

Book, Ball, Cookie

Sketches of One Year Olds

For Bryce: Full Color

Erika, this is for your new, beautiful little nephew.  I miss you my friend.

For Bryce

More Character Sketches

This is for a little series of drawings entitled, "Is This It?"

Character Sketches II

Character Sketches

Tadpoles

Birthday Card For Kate

I kind of created this in the fashion of the old three toned illustrations of my childhood. :) Only had 40 minutes to finish it, so was a bit rushed. 

On The Go

Don't Forget

Notagood Idea

One Beautiful Thing

It's The Little Things

Character Sketches

Having SO much fun experimenting with pastels.  I love the rich colors against the thicker line.  It's like...POW! 

Winter Peekaboo

Steam Punk Cow

Another Autograph

I think I like this one best so far!

Another Version of "Autograph"

Autograph II

Sophia

More character sketches!  Slightly different style from before.  Outlined in Higgins Black Magic ink with # 2 watercolor brush.  I used to prefer dip pens, but now I can't use anything but a brush haha.  I guess I feel more in control of the line.

Autograph Style II

The Catch

The Dream

Nonsense

The Thief

Stuck Walking the Duck

Reflection

The Date

Milo Sketches

Hey, Milo

Working on a new pitch for an early reader series for Scholastic!  Here's a practice image, although there are going to be lots more before I start considering them as actual samples.  Practice makes perfect, right? :)

New Thumbnail Sketches

Hope everyone is staying safe through Storm Sandy!  Here are the thumbnails are going to be submitted to publishers in the next week or so.  They're larger than the typical thumbnail sketch--about six per standard size piece of typing paper. And the drawings are tighter too (since this is going to be used in lieu of a dummy book).  Also added some color accents to show that black and red are the main two colors in the book.

Can't publish the whole manuscript of course, so the text is blurred out (sorry). :)

Thanks for visiting and stay safe!

First Page of Sophia Madeline Starlight

The Making of A Children's Book Illustration: Sophia the Pig!

Click "youtube" on the video so you can see it full size on the youtube site!  Stay safe out there through hurricane Sandy.

Fallen

Sophia in Color

Heartbreak

This is also for Illustration Friday: Sky.

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