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All the Stars in the Sky – Cover
A picture book I illustrated for Simon and Schuster went online for pre-order recently! "All the Stars in the Sky" by Art Coulson is a really sweet story about a young Cherokee boy who learns about community from his grandmother. I used a combination of beadwork and watercolor for all the illustrations. Here's the cover: And the thumbnail (done in graphite) and color sketch (digital): And a timelapse detail from one of the internal pages…
YESTERDAY’S POST
TrendWatching Part 2: Castlecore, Pre-Raphaelites, and Feminist Nuns
February 20, 2025 - Hi everyone, I'm back this month with more on trendwatching, but make sure you go back and read Part 1 before you go ahead and read this one. Part 1 was talking about HOW I think about trends and this post is a real-world developing-around-us example of that philosophy. Back? Great. So last month I talked about how important it is to think about trends as layers, and that the deeper you go the further ahead you can see. So for me, first layer would be looking at book covers coming out from other publishers — well, that's really too late, because book covers have to be designed about a year ahead of when the book's on sale date is. You can get a little info about which genres are trending up by looking at…
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