Ruff Life: Designing Max and Bella
Lesley Craine approached me to do the cover illustrations for Ruff Life, a series of adventure novels for youngsters between 8-12 years old about a pair of secret agents, Max and Bella. Max and Bella are more than…
Banana Chronicles: Mapping the Island
Since I began working on the Banana Chronicle, one of the client’s concern was my commitment to do the whole series. Tim Brower, my client, wants all six books to look and feel consistent. His initial thought was to split…
Banana Chronicles: Consistency
Illustrating a children book is different than drawing a poster. It’s even more difficult if we’re talking about illustrating children books that span a whole series. Inconsistency is known to plague children books. Same characters…
Banana Chronicles: Layers, Wow or Woe?
Our clients receive the project final illustrations in Photoshop Dcoument (PSD) files. PSD is a very versatile format that allows us to work with images in multiple layers. We can draw objects in separate layers…
Banana Chronicles: From Script to Print
You might wonder how long does it take to create one illustration. It’s impossible to give a straight answer and I hope taking you through our workflow can shed some light on it. It’s all…
Banana Chronicles: Getting the Contract
The project description was quite short: tropical location, animals, and people. My first task was to create a sketch for the cover of the book. Judging by the client’s lukewarm response, I thought I blew my…
Robot Turtles Part 1: Behind the Scene
History of Robot Turtles It was all began with Dan Shapiro’s desire to activate the programming-gene deep inside his four year old twins. Dan himself has been a programmer for as long as he can…
Dabby Dill Part 2: Words to Pictures
The first book in the series was titled “Dabby Dill and the Hiccup Pickle”. It tells the story about the day when Dabby woke up to the sound of her own hiccup. She went on…
Dabby Dill Part 1: Hiring an Illustrator
Brad Daberko and the Illustrator Pickle Brad Daberko sent me an email one day, asked if I’m available to work with him in a children book project. I was hooked by the moment I read…
Drawing Children Book
Working on book illustration projects for children under 5 years old is not a simple task. It’s a whole different world from a teenage comic book or adult graphic novel project. Comic book and graphic novel…
