Birds of ABC.

For Children's, our recent focus had been ABC books for the kidz. Something clever yet child friendly. I decided to skip clever altogether, and instead went with a theme both tried and true: Birds.

Of course, that is not to say I went with the most obvious choices as far as birds go. But since we only were required to create four, I hadn't yet gotten crazy with my selections. I don't have the final pieces scanned yet, but here are some initial sketches (which I then used to create the finals...).
I did not use the crow sketch, unfortunately.

Comments are always appreciated, but at this point, probably too late. Of course you can always save'em for when I post the final pieces (maybe).

The Tiger and The Zebra, finished! (Maybe)

So here's the final linework for the poem spread...




and the final colored illustrations.



Someday I may add some patterning to the wallpaper. We'll see...

As simple as these are, a lot of process went into them! I really surprised myself by the amount of work I put into them. Let me know what you think!

The Tiger and The Zebra.

Currently working on a spread for a poem written by Kenn Nesbitt called "The Tiger and the Zebra." It's sorta long, so I'm only using the first two stanzas.

Anyway, so far, I just have a couple roughs of what I'm thinking about doing. They still need a lot of work. And I'm thinking about finishing them the way I finished my last piece (mouse and shoe).

Here are my first 'roughs' which were actually only slightly larger thumbnails that I threw some marker on for a test, scanned, blew up, and pieced together just to see if the spread worked.
Then I redrew'em for some legitimate roughs... I plan on a wallpaper pattern in pastel colors behind the zebra, and I'll probably move him to the right to make more room for the text. And I need to work on their phones. PLUS, the room in the tiger's page interferes with where the text will be, so I need to fix that.Your feedback on what could be improved (before the week is out) would be greatly appreciated!