Cartoon of a man staring at a compact disc. The caption reads, Bruce tries to combine the old with the new by curling up and reading a classic on CD-ROM.
This is an illustration I did back in 1996 for the sixth edition of the "New Rider's Internet Yellow Pages."
New Rider's Publishing and me own the copyright to this image. Please do not use without permission.
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Blog link: What size should I illustrate my children's book?
Heather Castle's blog has some great information for aspiring children's book illustrators. Her latest post tackles the question, "What size should I illustrate for children's books?"
The biggest takeaway from this is don't provide finished illustrations for the whole book. It will take you forever and won't help you sell the book. Provide sketches and perhaps one, finished illustration.
You never what to hear from and editor who says, "The story was great, but the illustrations are a bit off." I've seen it before. It happens. Your illustrations may be great, but not quite the angle the editor would like to go. Or it could go the other way. The publisher loves your illustration style but thinks the story is drivel. If that's the case, you have quite a portfolio piece, but a couple of illustrations would have sufficed.
It's the KISS method, friends! Keep it simple, Silly!
Cartoon: Cover to cover
Cartoon of two boys in school. One says, “I’m going to study this book from cover to cover. So far, I have the copyright page memorized.”
Does anybody read the copyright page? I do! It's chocked full of great information and ISBN numbers. If you don't know what the latter is, you probably don't want to read the copyright page anyway.
I drew this in Adobe Illustrator CS2
Illustration Friday: Instinct
CIG Bird Care and Training Part 4
Originally uploaded by speartoons
Part 4 opener for "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Bird Care and training."
This is a book I illustrated about ten years ago. When I heard the word for this week, I thought of the many times we try to train instinct out of animals. That's good when the dog piddles on the carpet. I'm guessing it's good to teach a parrot the theory of relativity too.
The copyright belongs to the publisher. Copyright Alpha Books/Pearson Education. All rights reserved.
Hunter Brown is Here!
Today is the release date for "Hunter Brown and the Secret of the Shadow." We are excited here at Warner Press. This is a book I had a small part in laying out and sending to the printer. The Miller Brothers have done a fantastic job with this book and they have a great web site to go with it at http://www.codebearers.com/. They also have a blog at http://themillerbrothers.blogspot.com/.
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