I recently finished the illustrations for a very funny picture book called The Book That Eats People. It’s written by John Perry and will be out late summer 2009 from Tricycle Press.
I’ll post more about it as we get closer to the release date. It was a project that let me try out a lot of techniques, experiment with compositions and play with the nature of what parts of story go on a page and why. It was painted digitally (in Photoshop) using a lot of collage textures and elements. It features an inspired and funny manuscript and Tricycle was wonderful to work with, offering helpful notes and useful ideas. It was one of those rarest of rare projects where I can’t find anything to complain about.
