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May 22, 2018
Mayor Sly and the Magic Bow Tie
I seem to be in the habit of discussing my book projects on Tuesdays.
Last fall, I was contacted by my friends at Ascend Books to illustrate an exciting project for them. It was (drumroll, please) Mayor Sly and the Magic Bow Tie: A Kansas City Adventure.
The book was written by Aja James and Audrey Masoner with Kansas City’s current mayor Sly James. Mayor James is quite famous for his colorful bow ties. In this story, he wears a magic time-travel bow tie that allows him to travel through Kansas City history. This book required a LOT of visual research into the people and places Aja and Audrey wrote about. The scenes in modern day are in full color while the past sequences are in a limited color scheme. (And different colors for every time period.) Here are a few of my favorite images from the book:
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Mayor Sly James admires the view from roof of his office. I was provided with photos of the rooftop view to get it as accurate as possible.
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On the river with Lewis and Clark. The two faces and clothing of the men are based on old paintings of them.
[image error] This historic building is now known as Kelly’s.
Mayor Sly meets Harry Truman and Walt Disney. Notice that Walt has a mouse on his sketchpad. It’s not quite Mickey– I based it on a mouse I found on a movie poster from Disney’s Laugh-O-Gram studios to make it as period accurate as possible.[image error]
This is the first Plaza Christmas lighting. I made as certain as possible which Plaza building was lit and where they hung the lights. I couldn’t find a photo of the man’s face who hung the first lights so I obscured it from view.
If you’re interested in the book, you can find it on Amazon at the link below:
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Daily Drawing: Robot 16
Beep Beep Boop.
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May 21, 2018
Daily Drawing: Robot 15
I just realized that most of my robots so far have been obviously masculine, so I thought we needed a lady robot. What do you think?
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May 18, 2018
Daily Drawing: Robot 14
A boy and his dog.
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May 17, 2018
Daily Drawing: Robot 13
This robot is a nice guy, but a bit of a square.
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May 16, 2018
Daily Drawing: Robot 12
Here’s another running robot for some reason.
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May 15, 2018
PaPa and Christian book cover process
Last week, I wrote about my new book PaPa and Christian’s Great Adventures: The Treasure Awaits! And I thought it would be interesting to show off the cover design process. After I had finished up most of the interior art, I talked with the author, Patrick Carberry, about the cover. He had a few ideas, including somehow incorporating this page from the interior:[image error]
I took his ideas and, combining them with a few of my own, worked up 4 rough cover designs. [image error] [image error] [image error] [image error]
Patrick really liked cover 4, using a variation of the interior art, but preferred the title treatment from cover 2. And so, here’s the final cover:
You can buy the book on Amazon at this link:
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Daily Drawing: Robot 11
It’s a little light up bulb man.
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May 14, 2018
Daily Drawing: Robot 10
So many parts to choose from, so little time to build.
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May 11, 2018
Daily Drawing: Robot 9
If you’re going to build a giant robot, you have to expect it to terrorize the city at some point.
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