In addition to authoring these books, it has been my extreme pleasure to work with our talented artists and to see them transform the black and white words into worlds of color and imagination.  I’m always interested to see details and scenarios emerge in the artwork that had never occured to me when writing the text.

The artists have been subjected to my terrible dictatorship as they work through draft after draft, page after page, and Sara (for some reason) came back for more punishment to illustrate our next book “RULER OF SPACE”.  Actually, the process is extremely collaborative and I think the results are fantastic.  In order to help you understand the time and effort our artists pour into their works, I invite you to follow the journey of Sara’s sketches to a final page.  It’s a lot like making a movie.

First, Sara sketched out numerous body and head shapes to find the right proportions and style for our main characters.  In the movies, this part would be ”casting”.

Then the characters went into wardrobe and makeup…

Then she started to build the set…  We realized we needed a throne…

and a throne room… we loved the living alien throne so Sara made it bigger. 

Then we rehearsed…

And… action!

CUT!  This scene is a wrap!  Stay tuned for more sneak peeks as we keep filming.

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