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A Basketball Story – Interior 6, Left Side

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The next interior has two images, one on either side. Here’s the first one. Someone taking the team picture. This same picture is also used on the cover.

An illustration of someone taking a team photo using a cell phone. Only the picture-taker's hands and phone are visible, with the team visible on the screen. The actual team is out of focus in the distance.

A Basketball Story – Cover

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This week I finished illustrations for a new picture book for Entrepreneur Media Inc. Here’s a mock-up of the cover. The final text will be formatted a little different, probably a different font, but this gives you the idea.

A cover mock-up for a picture book titled A Basketball Story: Always be Humble, based on a true story by: Miles Davis-Majors and Illustrated by: Karen B. Jones. The cover is divided into four quadrants. The upper left shows a team picture of the Jackrabbits team, a youth basketball team consisting of players around 10 years old. The upper right has the same sort of team picture for the Sea Turtles team. The lower left is a close-up of three Jackrabbit players' faces in profile, receding from the viewer. The lower right is the same for the Sea Turtles. The center has a basketball with the title text and bylines overlaid.

A little behind-the-scenes detail: I originally had a different cover design concept in mind (below) but the client wanted this one (above) because they wanted to show everyone on both teams and didn’t want them to look aggressive.

A rough cover mock-up for a picture book titled A Basketball Story: Always be Humble, based on a true story by: Miles Davis-Majors and Illustrated by: Karen B. Jones. Two basketball players, both around 10 years old, hold a basketball between them with one hand each. The other hand for each is a fist. The Jackrabbit player on the left is frowning with eyes narrowed and eyebrows down. The Sea Turtles player on the right has a similar aggressive expression, but with his teeth showing. The Jackrabbits player is an African American boy with his hair bleached blonde on the top. The Sea Turtles player is an East Asian boy with thick, shaggy hair. A crowd seated on bleachers is out of focus behind them.