I recently recovered from an illustration gig with a start-up multimedia company. The job would potentially pay, but the fact that the process itself would bulk up my portfolio was compensation enough if the contracts and talk fell through. The alternative family children's book consisted of twenty-two pages and, while colored in Adobe PhotoShop 7, was hand drawn and inked with three different Micron Archival Pens.
The job took what I saw as a devastating blow when the producer overlooked available printing dimensions and my full-page, 10"x8" color images (some meant to span over a 2-page spread) had to be shrunk to fit onto an 8"x"10" book print. I was obviously frustrated considering that the producers had worked on a pretty nice book prior to the current series and I had made the assumption that they had already looked into the printing options with Amazon's CreateSpace. Luckily for us, there will be other books in the series and I can work with the correct dimensions from the start. But in the meantime the premier book is set up to be presented in a less-than-flattering light.
The actual, human Adan can come any second now. Because of maternity leave, my time has become abundant and I've been spending it working on Adan the Tiger-related writing and drawing.
If you or anyone else is looking for something similar to this for friends or family (think of the babies!) then you can make your way over to my Etsy Shop!
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