Delicacy

Boom.  Another week, another challenge met.

just in time.

Phew! This painting sat in a corner unfinished and mocking me for two years before I was challenged by a friend to finish it in under a week.  I won't get into what the consequences for not meeting the deadline would have been; suffice it to say, DIRE.

Eva Ibbotson covers

Three soon-to-be reprinted covers for Penguin/Dutton Children's Books:

a little gore

Title pages for recent issues of Scholastic's SCOPE Magazine:

Graphic Classics: Edgar Allan Poe

Two spreads from Poe's "Hop-Frog, or, The Eight Chained Orangutans."  Click to enlarge:

This was a kinda nostalgic project for me.  The full circle, for those interested: Graphic Classics took a chance on this once-starving illustrator for their very first issue and my very first publishing job about 10 years ago, for the very same Poe story. Back then, Graphic Classics was in black & white, and I only produced a handful of spot illustrations rather than a full graphic novel.  How far we both have come... le sigh.

BOO!

Ghosts.  An interior illustration for Eva Ibbotson's "Ogre of Oglefort," due out August 18th, from Penguin. (pre-order!)

drawing monsters, part II

Cover image for THE WEEK: