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Karen B. Jones – Illustrator

Freelance artist creating custom children's illustrations.

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    • Illustrations for Kids
      • Casting a Spell
      • Voodoo Doll
      • Robot Cafe
      • Cheater
      • Pirate Reading
      • Bike & Skateboard
      • The Diary
      • Explore the Unknown
      • Monster
      • Robot Invasion!
      • Girl on Stairs
    • Illustrations for Kids (continued)
      • Lunch
      • Morning
      • Girls in Tree House
      • Tortoise and Hare
      • Mouse
      • Elephant
      • Little Bunny
      • Hoppy Bunny
      • Katie’s Monkey
      • Karate Cont.
      • Seven Ate Nine
    • Illustrations for Adults
      • Proctologist
      • Book Club
      • Wrapped Up
      • Pajamas
      • Neil DeGrasse Tyson
      • Donald Trump
      • Ninja Nail Clippers
      • H.O.A.
      • Cemetery
      • KC Art Fair
      • Box of Junk
      • My House
      • The Ogerita
      • Happy Snowman
      • Ice Skating
    • Books
      • The Genie Loophole
      • The Squishy, Stinky Diaper
      • My Tree House
      • Standing Up to The Bullies
      • Mom for City Council
      • The Owl and The Turkey
    • Spot Illustrations for Textbooks
    • Inktober 2016
    • Inktober 2020
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Inktober 2020 #23 – RIP

October 23, 2020September 29, 20204 Comments

RIP, of course, means Rest in Peace. We as a country and as a world have lost so many this year. Rest in Peace to all of them.

Two doves in an overgrown patch of grass and wildflowers.  There is a tombstone reading, "REST IN Peace  All those lost in 2020."

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Inktober 2020 #22 – Chef

October 22, 2020November 2, 2020Leave a comment

Here’s a chef. Playing with a different style.

Who ever said people need faces? Pft.

(BTW, I just finished watching a Doctor Who episode where the monster sucked off people’s faces through the TV. So. Faceless people. Yeah.)

An illustration of a woman in a chef's uniform standing with a spoon in her hand.  Drawn in a simplified style without a face or detailed hands.

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Inktober 2020 #21 – Sleep

October 21, 2020September 25, 20204 Comments

Cuteness overload! Two sleeping babies. I bet they’re best friends.

A toddler sleeps with a baby dragon curled up around them.

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Inktober 2020 #20 – Coral

October 20, 2020October 3, 20204 Comments

Some coral. With an eel. Because coral alone is boring. It needed an eel.

(Coral is really boring to draw. Like, REALLY boring.)

An eel swimming around some coral.

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Inktober 2020 #19 – Trap

October 19, 2020October 10, 20202 Comments

I felt very evil while drawing this one. Poor fly. But a spider’s gotta eat.

A housefly frantically tries to pull its feet free from a spider's web as the spider looms behind it

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Inktober 2020 #18 – Storm

October 18, 2020September 25, 20202 Comments

This lightning storm was fun to draw. The piece was all about the lighting. And the lightning. Lighting my lightning. 🙂

A boy standing in front of an open window at night watching a lightning storm.

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Inktober 2020 #17 – Rocket

October 17, 2020September 25, 2020Leave a comment

Well, I’ve drawn real rockets and sci-fi rockets. I considered drawing Rocket Raccoon. But I decided to draw a boy lighting a bottle rocket instead.

Lines only. Didn’t bother with shading today. Maybe I’ll come back to it.

A line drawing of a boy lighting a bottle rocket.

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Inktober 2020 #16 – Outpost

October 16, 2020September 25, 2020Leave a comment

Lot of stairs to get up there, but I bet the view is spectacular!

A black and white drawing of a rock formation with an arch.  On the very top is a tower.  There are lots of stairs.
Illustration for the sixteenth day of the 2020 Inktober illustration prompt: Outpost.

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Inktober 2020 #15 – Armor

October 15, 2020November 11, 20202 Comments

An annoyed dragon having a conversation with a knight in armor.

“Just what do you intend to do with that little knife?”

An annoyed dragon having a conversation with a knight in armor.

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Inktober 2020 #14 – Dune

October 14, 2020September 25, 20204 Comments

A sandworm on Arrakis from Frank Herbert’s Dune.

A sandworm on Arrakis from Frank Herbert's Dune.

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Karen Jones is such common name that it won’t surprise you to learn that I’m not the only Karen Jones around.  In fact, I’m not even the only children’s illustrator named Karen Jones!  That’s why I include the B.

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