Category: Reading and Literacy

  • Head Over Heels!

    I’m head-over-heels with joy to have finished the artwork for the second story in the Generation Moon to be called First Kid in Space. This illustration is of Glenn undergoing astronaut training – getting used to spinning around every which way. Now working on the covers of book two and book three. I need to…

  • How to Draw Heads for Character Design and Illustration

    Drawing heads for character illustrations doesn’t have to be difficult. A head is just a blob at the top of a body. The important bits are what you draw on top of the features that define the mood and emotion… the hats and clothes, glasses and beards that define the character. Creating characters is not…

  • Designing the cover for my new children’s book – Generation Moon

    It’s time to think about the cover design for my new middle-grade space adventure trilogy – Generation Moon. This is a first go at it to see what happens. Often, a first attempt looks terrible, so you try everything else. But, eventually, you tend to come back to the first idea. In this video I…