A chocolate bar next to some cocoa beans and a cocoa pod. I hadn’t realized how big these things were until I looked them up. This illustration appears in the book next to a paragraph about chocolate being an example of a food grown in Latin America.
To get the full effect on this one, imagine it is hanging from one of the letters in the page header. It was tied, if I remember right, to the bottom of an “E”. There are three different depictions of pinatas in this book, all of them star-shaped.
This one is a very simple, and it was very small on the page. Just a smiling boy.
Here’s the first interior illustration for Positive Promotion’s Hispanic Heritage book. The original art specs called for this illustration to read “Hurray for Hispanic Heritage” in English, which was also the header for this page. I thought that seemed a little redundant and missed a good opportunity to show some Spanish language in an otherwise completely English manuscript. It seemed appropriate given the subject.
Since I don’t speak Spanish, I used Google Translate to find the equivalent phrase in Spanish and gave the client the option to have me use that phrase instead. To be safe, I also warned the client to double-check whether my translation was correct, but I think it’s right. They didn’t correct me, anyway. 🤞
I completed an illustration project for Positive Promotions. I provided illustrations for a children’s workbook about Hispanic Heritage. It’s the sort of thing that might be used in an elementary school for Hispanic Heritage Month or a Spanish language class. This isn’t the final cover, but a mockup based on the draft layout with my illustrations inserted.
Next, I’ll post the line drawings for the interior pages.
Last one. Opposite the page where she loses her temper, she apologizes for losing her temper and her friend forgives her.
It’s a full-page illustration with bleeds around the top, bottom, and right edges.
I might have lied. This one might be my favorite image of the series. The narrator lady has lost her temper and is cussing at her friend. I really liked drawing the angry pose and the profanity symbols. I was particularly proud of that cartoony skull.
This is a full-page illustration for page 19, which puts it on the left side of the book with the quarter inch bleed along all edges except on the right.
This illustration depicts four villagers sharing a meal and chatting after Jesus has left their village.
Then Jesus hung around a few days…
This is the last illustration that actually has Jesus in it. The remaining images only show the villagers. As with the others, His face is intentionally not shown.
Page 14 has just one panel. It shows villagers walking out to the well where Jesus is standing and preaching to the crowd. Some villagers sit or kneel on the ground at His feet. I gave Jesus a slight halo because it seemed on theme. Notice the rope, abandoned vase, and empty box by the well? Those details came from earlier in the story.
Karen B. Jones - Illustrator 