Can you judge this book by its cover?

REVISED COVER CLOSEUP:
I’ve centered the “Penelope” title in the oval better as suggested… I think that helped. I’m liking this tighter crop too, but it’s only because I’m zoomed in in Photoshop…

REVISED COVER POSTED:
Let me know your thoughts/concerns on this new one… I’ve lightened the environment, added detail and shading to the background elements and [...]

Children’s Book Illustration

Here are a few snapshots from the book I’m illustrating – just a sneak peek cuz I don’t want to give too much away…
Just a sneak peek at my leading lady…

Children’s Illustrators: Guy Francis

A review of “Mrs. McBloom, Clean Up Your Classroom!” by Kelly DiPucchio, illustrated by Guy Francis.

Educational Children’s Books and Review: Illustrator John Skewes

The thing that I really like about this Penelope Pilot book that I’m working on, is that not only is it a great little story with a fun character, it’s that the book actually teaches about aviation as kids read it. They’ll learn common terms like turbine and epaulets (those stripey things pilots wear on [...]

New Illustration: “Cold”

A walk thru of how I created my latest illustration in Photoshop.

Caught in the Web…

I was up rather late putting together a hard copy portfolio of just my Web work – web sites and email designs… I realized I don’t have good printouts of my most recent sites, so I’m going to post them here.
Ideally, I’d like to move away from the Web design and really concentrate on just [...]

Illustration Friday: Pretend (2)

Here’s a fun children’s illustration, based on another segment of the video I’m currently illustrating…

What were your favorite books as a kid?

Not only did I practically read holes in these books when I was a kid, but looking back I think they had a profound, if subliminal, impact on my wanting to be an illustrator when I grew up:
First of all, Mike Mulligan And His Steam Shovel. I loved the simple art and the great story [...]