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AUTHOR: MARIE ELENA CORTES
PUBLISHER: PROVIDENCE PUBLISHING CO.
ROLL: ILLUSTRATOR
This was a really fun book to illustrate and the Author Marie Elena Cortes was a real great person to work with as well. It's a simple premise but accurate to so many peoples experience. I wanted to make very stylized characters.
Talking on the phone..
Playing dress up.
Hide and seek.
The sketch stage.
In the end it is all love.
AUTHOR: ANDRE MIDDLETON
PUBLISHER: ANDRE MIDDLETON
ROLL: ILLUSTRATOR
An interactive story, illustrated with a combination of scanned line drawings and digital coloring. This was a good methode in this case because it lends itself to separating out the elements as they needed to eventually be made interactive. Much like cell shaded animation frames.
I must have been projecting my future when I drew these because I ended up being one of these dads, walking in the snowey brooklyn parks only a few years later with kids.
One of my favorite images from the book.
Squirelle time...
"Come oooooon!!!".
AUTHOR: RIC O'BERRY
PUBLISHER: JIYUSHA PUBLISHING CO., JAPAN
ROLL: ILLUSTRATOR
I loved to illustrate this story, written by the former dolphin trainer on the TV star FLIPPER, Ric O'Berry, who has dedicated his life to getting dolphins OUT of captivity and returning them to the wild.
AUTHOR: STEPHANIE MARA DAWSON
PUBLISHER: PROVIDENCE PUBLISHING CO.
ROLL: ILLUSTRATOR
I channeled the elementarey school that I went to in Miami, FL. to illustrate this book and imagine these characters.
Stephanie teaches kids in the library, how to use a computer.
Stephanie sits alone by a tree while the other kids play and have fun.
Stephanie hugs her grandmother after things worked out and she knows she is loved.