Children’s Book Illusrations
Illustration | Print Design
I’ve always had a passion for drawing. As a kid, I’d have dozens of notebooks filled with my sketches of ideas I had and the natural world around me. As an adult, I began applying this passion to real world applications. I wanted to create whimsical creatures and tell stories and develop worlds. So, I started creating scenes from stories. My ultimate goal with my illustration work is to be able to work on children’s literature. Here are a few samples that are helping me reach that goal.
The Fox and the Crow
Above are a selection of moments from Aesop’s The Fox and the Crow. This was my first time creating a narrative scene like this. My goal was to experiment with perspective and create a cohesive environment across the pages. Aside from the scenery, it also required a bit of character design. The crow came to me almost instantly, so that helped dictate what direction I took the fox in.
For the settings, I wanted to try my hand at visualizing different perspectives. One straight on, one from below, and one from above, as if the reader is experiencing the same points of views as the characters.
The Kid’s Guide to Paleontoloty
I always welcome an opportunity to include dinosaurs in my work. I wanted to work on a passion project that made me reminisce on all of the media that made me fall in love with paleontology. I created a series of full page spreads for a speculative children’s book on dinosaurs and the study of them.
Here be dinosaurs
Each of the spreads pictured serve as the introductions of chapters in my speculative book. Deciding what to include was a project in and of itself. After landing on a few themes, I had to test out compositions and perspectives. Following the theme of the previous set of illustrations, I wanted each of these to showcase a different angle to test what I was capable of creating.