NJ SCBWI Illustrator Intensive

 Below is a piece that I painted for an Illustrator Intensive at a recent 

NJSCBWI annual conference. We were given the chance to work with an art director who

gave us two manuscript to read through. We then chose a passage from one of those manuscripts to illustrate. The text that I chose was from a book entitled When I Grow Up by Al Yankovic. 

A wonderful book that is already published by Harper Collins.

Below are some stages of sketches as well as the finished double page spread.  The part of the manuscript that I chose to illustrate read as follows: 

"'Cause maybe I'll be a gorilla masseuse 

Or an artist who sculpts out of chocolate mousse

Or a rodeo clown or a great film director

Or maybe professional pickle inspector

Or big sumo wrestler or hedge fund investor 

Or smelly pit-sniffing deodorant tester."

Detail

Initial sketch

Sketch with corrections

 

Final Double Page Spread

watercolor, acrylic, and colored pencil

9 1/2 x 22 3/4