Big Bad Bear

Working on another book.  This is the cover...the bear was purple and now he is blue. The name of the book is Beware Beware of the Big Bad Bear.

Finished color cover art.

Sketch with title text

I am struggling a bit with this book.  I am not a blue person, so the color composition on this book is a challenge to me.  I had initially created the bear purple, but the last few book covers have had a very strong purple, green and yellow color composition.  So went out on a limb and made bear blue....not sure yet.  

Dinosaur Mardi Gras

 

I am so excited!  This is the cover for Dinosaur Mardi Gras 

coming out Janurary 2012.  I LOVE how it turned out.  There 

is always that moment of nerves when you see how the publisher 

handled the font, the colors, etc.  This one is right on!!

Below if the complete cover jacket.  

You never get to see it all at once, 

but I think it looks great! 

This is such a fun book about the dinosaur Mardi Gras!  

It is a rhyming, chomping, stomping, good time

as the dinosaurs take over the parade.  Yea!

 

A is for Alligator

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     This is my newest book.  I co-authored this book with Dianne de Las Casas.  This is a book for teachers, parents, and even children.  It is a "how to draw book".  So, what makes it cool?  In each exercise I start with  a letter of the alphabet and create a animal out of each letter. The part I worked the hardest on  is making sure the letters disapear when the drawing is complete.  It is fun to have other students, parents, or friends try to guess what the letter was( the animal name matches, so that not to hard) and where it is in the drawing.  

     There is a story to go with each drawing. (Teachers this is really fun for your students.) As you tell the story you draw the next step.  Dianne is responsible for this part and it is quite impressive.  Why?  Usually an illustrator gets the manuscript(or the words) for a story and draws the picture.  In this book Dianne and I picked out the animals, then I created all the steps, and then she wrote the stories from the steps. It was the opposite, she had to write her stories to go along with the steps. They are very fun stories.  In my mind that is really cool!

      I created a book mark to showcases one of the stories.  It is above.  Because of space issues on the book mark I had to shorten the story just a bit.  But hopefully you will get a good idea of how cool and fun this book is. 

Expire

I have a very bad habit of keeping my library books
till the due date expires.  I have terrible fees all the time.  
But my librarians still love me because they like my illustration.

They just look a little pinched when I turn in my expired library books.

  I tried a new pen...don't know if I like it,

but here it is.  I know I need to develop a black and white 

portfolio, but I love color....may try this with color.