Sketch of Bob Rabbit

© 2007

I just completed this sketch last night. It was one of the sketches that I started with and it has been the hardest one so far to resolve. With most of the sketches, by the third draft I'm happy enough to move on to another one. I must have done 10 drawings of this bunny before arriving at this version. It feels good to have him finished.

Sketch of Freddie Fox at his desk

© 2007

The pretty peacock and her chicks

© 2007

I'm well aware that the female peacock is brown and isn't even called a peacock, but I don't care. This is a children's story and I want to draw a vibrant and colorfull bird. Besides, my illustrations aren't realistic anyhow.

The mother peacock is sad because someone has vandalized her house. I'm still debating if her chicks should be sad too. I was looking at it as if they were too young to understand, that way the illo isn't filled with sadness, but I'm not convinced that's the way to go.

Even though she's a peacock, I decided not to show her tail feathers because she's sad and I thought her tail feathers being down could reflect that. Later on in the story she's very happy and I thought I could illustrate her big fancy tail on that page to help convey her happiness.

The space on the left side is for text.

Happy Otter

© 2007

Here he is again, only now he's happy because his rocking chair is fixed.
There will be a little bit of text in the top right corner.

Sketch of grumpy Nick Otter

© 2007

This is Nick, a grumpy otter.
I left room for text in the sky on the left side and above Nick's head on the right.

Meet the Main Characters

I would like to introduce Nola Star and her father.


© 2007

I'm going to be posting some of my sketches for the book when ever I have some extra time. My main reason for doing this is to get some feed back from the people who read this blog. In addition to illustrating this book, I'm also designing it. Since I'm not working with anyone other than the author, I think it would be good to hear what other people think. These sketches aren't final so I can still make improvements.

It's official...

I just signed a contract to illustrate my first children's book. It's called Painted Problems by Ann Cooney. It looks like it's going to be a great project with a lot of potential. The deadline is pretty tight and I have a lot of work to do, but I'm excited about it. I think I can make a really cool children's book.

Puss admiring his boots

This drawing goes with the last one I posted.


© 2007

An oldie but a goodie

I just started working on a big project - I don't want to say any more about it until the contract has been signed just in case it doesn't go through - but it is now consuming all of my free time. I've had to put all of my other projects on hold for the moment and that's why I've had nothing new to post lately.

This is an image I made a few years ago. It's the same direction that I'm going in with my new project so I thought I'd post it. It's a book cover for the story of Puss in Boots.


© 2007