Final Penelope Pilot Cover Art

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 [...]

Penelope Gets Ready…

Penelope Pilot illustration 2 – prelim. sketch

Revising Penelope

Keeping a character looking consistant across a book is the hardest part of children’s illustration.

Book Illustration process

A peek inside the process of my children’s book project…

Children’s book: layout revisions

Children’s book design is a learning process.

Children’s Book Layout

For the first time, I did layout for a children’s book yesterday. I’m not sure if I’m doing everything right, but I’m setting up styles in InDesign, figuring out my page spreads, placement of illustrations, etc. It’s good to get my head around where my illustrations will need to be placed – I made a [...]

From the book I’m working on…

A preview of one of the illustrations of the children’s book I’m working on. This is all you get to see…