Interior Illustration 15 of 18
A caricature portrait of Jaime Escalante, the high school teacher who inspired the movie Stand and Deliver.
Let’s Learn About Hispanic Heritage
Tag: teacher
Number 133 of 150
This one is supposed to be a teacher. What makes him a teacher? Well, mostly because that’s what the specs say he is. He could really be about any ordinary office worker standing around with a dry erase marker. (Not a retail worker, though, because there’s no name tag.)
The first draft actually gave him a lanyard with an ID badge, like my kids tell me all the teachers wear all the time now. But the client decided on no lanyard.
A Basketball Story – Interior 2
Here’s the next interior image of the picture book I just finished for Entrepreneur Media, Inc. This one’s a two-page spread, with text overlaid on the blank wall on the upper left. The children are excited about basketball tryouts!
Inktober 2020 #5 – Blade
Today we have sabre drill. A girl practicing fencing with her coach. The prompt was blade. I took the time to do comic book style shading and highlights this time.
I did my best to get the lunge position and the clothing correct. My husband fences, so I got a bit of advice from him on that. The coach is based very roughly on his coach and this drill is very common for beginning sabre fencers.
Sabre is the hack and slash style of fencing. Foil and epee are the pokey styles. My daughter is deeply disappointed I drew sabre instead of epee. She thinks epee is the best. But sabre just doesn’t have as nice a sound effect. SMACK!
In Trouble
Here’s a new one for that same series I’ve been working on. Seems our girl has been texting in class.
Standing Up to the Bullies – Image 12
Here’s the twelfth of thirteen images.
Standing Up to the Bullies by Ashley Kazery, commissioned by Learning A-Z, illustrated by me.
[Edit: I’ve updated the image. This is the final they’re using for the book.]
Standing Up to the Bullies – Image 10
Here’s the tenth of thirteen images.
Standing Up to the Bullies by Ashley Kazery, commissioned by Learning A-Z, illustrated by me.
[Edit: I’ve updated the image. This is the final they’re using for the book.]
Standing Up to the Bullies – Image 9
Here’s the ninth of thirteen images.
Standing Up to the Bullies by Ashley Kazery, commissioned by Learning A-Z, illustrated by me.
[Edit: I’ve updated the image. This is the final they’re using for the book.]
Standing Up to the Bullies – Image 3
Here’s the third of thirteen images.
Standing Up to the Bullies by Ashley Kazery, commissioned by Learning A-Z, illustrated by me.
[Edit: I’ve updated the image. This is the final they’re using for the book.]
Annoyed Grown-Ups and Guilty Kids
Here’s some images I just finished for Hart McLeod.
Karen B. Jones - Illustrator 