World Wide Sketch Crawl

The 21st Sketch Crawl is coming up. I'm not sure where the Tucson people will be meeting, but hopefully I can meet up with a few people and post my images. If you haven't been to one, now's your chance. Either sketch on your own, or find a group in your area, then post on their forum.

Selected pages of my latest book…

What’s New This Week…

Here is the final version of an image created for MasterPieces Puzzle Co. This product should hit store shelves this spring. I just love the new look they are going with. Very fresh, clean and simple. Very not “mass-market.”


A few of the animals were done by the very talented Megann Colan.

An edit to a previous post

A few weeks ago I posted about my work style and just wanted to post the final version of the Pirates Page for my latest children’s book illustrations.


All illustrations are completed in Adobe PhotoShop and then brought together with the text in InDesign.

What’s New This Week…

This week I’m wrapping up a really cute little product for MasterPieces Puzzles. It’s using a style that I developed for them a few months ago. We decided that a simple “cut-paper” look would be best for quickness and ease. Here are a few of the sketches prior to the finished piece.

Sea Otters:



Turtles:

“Going On a Train”

My first children’s book is published and printed, CDs are done and it’s ready for sale here « Music Speaks Publishing ».

It was printed locally by Skyline Printing and they did an excellent job. Great color, great binding and quality work all the way. This was definitely a learning experience for me as I am well into my second children’s book. I’m learning how to judge my time a little better as far as the illustrations go, and I’ve also learned to trust your own judgment. If an image isn’t working there is no sense in not just scrapping it and starting over. I did this on two of the spreads in the book and I’m very glad that I did that.

The finished book looks great and I hope that I can work with Pamela in the future on more projects.

Pencil Sketches