Here’s an image that appears on page 14 of a coloring book about recycling commissioned by Positive Promotions for Earth Day. Text to be added to the speech bubbles in production.
Category: Children’s Illustrations
Recycling Book – Page 9
Here’s an image that appears on page 9 of a coloring book about recycling commissioned by Positive Promotions for Earth Day. Since this whole project was a rush job, I don’t think I got the characters quite as consistent as I usually do. I think the boy on the left side’s head needs to be larger in comparison to his body. Oh, well. I’ll try to do better in the future. 🙂
Recycling Book – Page 7
Here’s an image that appears on page 7 of a coloring book about recycling commissioned by Positive Promotions for Earth Day. I don’t think I quite hit the character consistency as well as I could have on the girl on the left. Her cheeks really should have been a little rounder. Casualty of this being a rush job. But I really like how the overall scene with the tree and the swing and such turned out.
Recycling Book – Page 1, Image 2
Here’s the second of two illustrations for the first page of a coloring book about recycling commissioned by Positive Promotions for Earth Day. The box in this acts as a frame around a word puzzle to be added in production.
Recycling Book – Page 1, Image 1
Here’s the first of two illustrations for the first page of a coloring book about recycling commissioned by Positive Promotions for Earth Day. Words will be added to the speech bubbles in production.
Recycling Book – Cover Art
I recently completed an educational coloring book project for Positive Promotions to be printed in time for Earth Day 2020. This was an unusual project in two ways.
First, it was not a new work, but a reillustration of an existing book originally illustrated 25 years ago. The previous illustrations were perfectly nice, but in a somewhat dated style. They wanted to update it. So, in many scenes, I was more-or-less copying a previous illustrator’s work, but in a modern style. A few elements were even just tracework, merely updating the line style to match my illustrations. There are no copyright or plagiarism issues because the publisher owned full rights to the previous work and instructed me to copy it. However, I have excluded the most direct copies from what I’m sharing here because I feel weird claiming that as my work. The samples I’ll share here for this project will only be the work that’s completely original or significantly different from the source material.
The second unusual part of this project was that it was a rush job. The project was one color cover image and 15 pages of black and white illustrations, usually several illustrations per page, all work to be done in two weeks, start to finish. So, this job was completed at top speed, working weekends and way more hours per day than I want to admit. Then, on top of that, there was a miscommunication on the ages of the characters that caused me to have to go back and redraw parts of most of the sketches before I could move on to the finals. Whew! This was a stressful project. But I got it done!
Anyhow, here’s the first image. This was for the cover and is the only color illustration in the project.
My Treehouse – Page 10
Here’s page 10 from My Treehouse, a short graded reader I recently illustrated for Learning A-Z. This is the last page for this book. 
My Treehouse – Page 9
Here’s page 9 from My Treehouse, a short graded reader I recently illustrated for Learning A-Z. The girl really has a remarkable view from the deck of her treehouse. If you look close, you’ll see a road with two bridges. One over a river and another over railway tracks. There’s traffic on the road. The distant fields have trees along the fencelines and there are cows in a field closer in.
My Treehouse – Page 8
Here’s page 8 from My Treehouse, a short graded reader I recently illustrated for Learning A-Z. As you can see, it’s really not so much a treehouse as an elevated playhouse build around some trees. But the girl seems to like it.
My Treehouse – Page 7
Here’s page 7 from My Treehouse, a short graded reader I recently illustrated for Learning A-Z. A cropped version of this image is also used on the title page.
Karen B. Jones - Illustrator 