This is an illustration inspired by a mini-story posted by A Small Fiction. Here’s the link to where I found it: https://www.facebook…
The story went like this:
A dragon was at her door.
“You ordered and adventure?” it said. It handed her a sword.
“Now what?”
“The tip.”
She poked it.
“You win!”
– A Small Fiction
They have a bunch of small stories like this. They’re fun. Check out their page for more.
Anyway, here’s my illustration of it:
Hey, I haven’t plugged The Genie Loophole lately. This is a book by Paul Maguire that I illustrated earlier this year and it’s available in paperback through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other booksellers.
It’s about a boy named Teddy who finds a genie’s bottle washed up on the beach one summer day. As you can guess, this causes all sorts of trouble for him.
It’s a middle-grade chapter book with one black and white illustration per chapter. (You can view the images in my portfolio here.) It was tremendous fun to work on. The character design is based on the author’s son, Finn.
Go buy a copy! It’s a fun story for a kid around 9 years old. It would make a great Christmas gift.
Something cute this time. 🙂
This is for Illustration Friday’s prompt of “Safety”.
Buy it on shutterstock.
I was thinking about the Monster High idea. This is Monster Middle School, I think. A private school, by the looks of those plaid skirts. I tried to draw them with goat legs and cloven hooves, but I was having trouble making them look cute that way, so they got standard human legs instead. The saddleshoes were fun to draw.
I just put all the images from The Genie Loophole into my Portfolio.
And I’m done! Here’s the cover image for The Genie Loophole by Paul Maguire which I’ve been working on for the last two months or so. I’ll post a link when it goes up for sale!
Chapter 10 of The Genie Loophole by Paul Maguire.
I am particularly proud of that throne.
And the steepled fingers. Those were harder to draw than they look. But they had to be steepled, otherwise how would you tell that the character was evil? 😉
Karen B. Jones - Illustrator 