A Basketball Story – Interior 11

December 21, 2021December 19, 2021Leave a comment

Here’s the 11th interior.

The team is in a locker room at the Sea Turtle’s school. They’re relaxed and goofing off a little. Nothing serious, but they also don’t seem very concerned about the up-coming game.

Seven members of the Jackrabbits youth basketball team are waiting in a locker room at the Sea Turtle's school. Two are sitting on top of the lockers, one taking a photo of the other. Another is sitting in an open locker, smiling at a teammate's phone as she takes a selfie of both of them. Two players seem to be asleep. One is laying on his stomach on the bench, playing on his phone. — i

A Basketball Story – Interior 8

December 1, 2021December 1, 2021Leave a comment

Here’s a two-page spread. You can see the kids are goofing off. Not really doing any harm, but not doing what they’re supposed to be doing either. In the story, at this point, they’re starting to think they’re undefeatable and they don’t have to work at it anymore. This will cause problems later.

Again, this is from the latest illustration project I finished, A Basketball Story, for Entrepreneur Media Inc.

An illustration of the corner of a school gymnasium. A kids' basketball team lounges around and goofs off. The scoreboard shows that they won the last game by 20 to 7. The coach looks on in disapproval.

Inktober 2020 #25 – Buddy

October 25, 2020April 28, 2021Leave a comment

Buddy always seemed like a dog’s name to me. So, here’s a boy playing with his Buddy.

Fast line drawing using fat lines this time.

Illustration for the twenty-fifth day of the 2020 Inktober illustration prompt: Buddy.

Sleepover

May 1, 2020May 11, 2020Leave a comment

Here’s a new one for that series I’m doing with this group of middle school kids. This one’s a sleepover and our main character (I should really give her a name) is having a sleepover with all her BFFs. She’s playing a video game (Mario Cart, perhaps?) against her very best bestie. Two more friends are painting nails on the floor and a fifth girl has already conked out and gone to sleep. (Hopefully they won’t put her bra in the freezer later!)

Edit: It was too green, so I made it bluer and updated the image. Better now, I think. 🙂

Safety Book – Interior Image – Page 8

March 16, 2020February 17, 2020Leave a comment

Here’s an image for page 8 of a safety-themed coloring book commissioned by Positive Promotions. This shows children playing in the yard in front of their home.

Safety Book - Interior Page 8
I just noticed I messed up the girl’s feet a little. The angle I drew them at doesn’t match the angle of the sidewalk. 😦

Recycling Book – Page 7

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020Leave a comment

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.

Four children in a tree