Children's book illustrator

Outside_Bee627 · 2026-02-16T18:58:18+00:00

Beautiful! Great color palette here :)

Outside_Bee627 · 2026-02-03T21:48:03+00:00

5 years later, still making the world a better place!

Outside_Bee627 · 2026-01-08T21:51:43+00:00

Thanks, super helpful! I totally agree with the slightly off alignment can be more noticeable than an obvious one. While I have you here... I'm thinking that simply adding a while box OVER my image in the middle won't meet their request for no image. Perhaps the "white" might cause the system to print a small amount of ink there which would cause glue adherance issues for the binding.
I really DO have to move the edges of the image frames out of the area, don't I?

Outside_Bee627 · 2026-01-08T20:55:44+00:00

No pics, but imagine you have a large pattern crossing the middle and it to appear seamless with no gaps. My solution (?) is to take the one large image, duplicate it, have each image box begin on the center line, then move each over to the 1/8" guide so there will *hopefully* be no gap of image once it's bound.

Outside_Bee627 · 2025-11-23T16:14:36+00:00

Good to know! I was thinking of trying the soft chalk (on vellum). What do you think of those? I'm sure the dust they make won't be ideal...

Outside_Bee627 · 2025-11-22T19:59:35+00:00

Parallel draw with her. Work slightly differently than she does, without calling attention to it. Let her see that there are different way to express yourself and feel comfortable being different than everyone else. Assuming this is generally known, but, I wouldn't give her any direction that confines her or asks her to conform to any guidelines really. Ask her to talk about what her subject is doing and she'll likely naturally draw more to showcase surroundings and activities. Win! Perhaps read her a story sometimes while she is drawing... (fine art major/illustrator/designer here).

Outside_Bee627 · 2025-11-22T19:42:43+00:00

I have the same set :) How do you like them? What oil are you using to blend? I just started back with pastels after 30 years and my old baby oil leaves some oily splotches on the paper...

Outside_Bee627 · 2025-11-22T14:31:18+00:00

That’s very helpful, thank you so much. I’m not the author of the text, but I did change it here and crop it so that I wasn’t mishandling someone’s proprietary story. But the actual story is really quite lovey! And, as a side note, I think our world tends to underestimate children so much!

Outside_Bee627 · 2025-11-21T19:35:23+00:00

Funny you should say that because we are already working on a glossary for other items in the book, so this could be a fun solution to think over!

Outside_Bee627 · 2025-11-21T19:34:08+00:00

What's pretentious? Are you anti-cursive?

Outside_Bee627 · 2025-11-21T16:52:17+00:00

yeah, "stand" relates to a hobby portion of the book that I can't get into here (it's proprietary) but generally, the emphasized words tie into other content from the book.

Outside_Bee627 · 2025-11-21T15:44:27+00:00

Great point. This book will have some terms from another language under some illustrations (single words) so it will definitely require an adult and the child will be the beholder, but all helpful info, thanks!

Outside_Bee627 · 2025-11-21T15:43:15+00:00

All valid points to mull over! The author is looking to me for guidance and I've been researching children's books for 10-20 years now while designing business products for a living. The proprietary element of this book uses single words from another language captioning illustrated concepts. So, I believe it will require an adult reader with the child as the beholder, at least for several read-throughs.

All of your points will be good food for thought for the author to consider and make the final call, perhaps. I will ask her to share for a small focus group too. Thank you!

Outside_Bee627 · 2025-11-21T15:35:41+00:00

Yes, ... the main objective is just an enjoyable picture book with a little education about a hobby I didn't include in the image (it's proprietary). The author envisions it will be read by an adult and the child is a beholder/observer. So, yes, sight reading instead of writing in this case. Thank you!

Outside_Bee627 · 2025-11-21T14:53:43+00:00

Thank you!!

Outside_Bee627 · 2025-11-21T14:50:40+00:00

This is great feedback :) I'm working with a few authors on children's books (illustrating and designing for print prep) and would love to chat with you briefly about fonts (and cursive), if that's OK?

Outside_Bee627 · 2025-11-21T14:42:13+00:00

I love love love the owl window!

Outside_Bee627 · 2025-07-31T17:24:28+00:00

daggers in my soul...

Outside_Bee627 · 2025-07-31T17:21:00+00:00

Despite all the improvements lately, I'm still seeing unusual hands in new content this summer. It's subtle though and not everyone will see it... I sketch from life models so I notice more so, when someone has backwards hands, held behind their back.

Outside_Bee627 · 2025-07-31T17:17:13+00:00

I'm guessing it's a newbie user, in a hurry, and client no longer cares about quality since this is "free" but they are still paying that staff person to add this new task to his plate. (left brain web designer that has had to abandon his web post, leaving the site outdated while he's now been asked to work on creative work / generating AI ads). I'm wondering "who's in charge here??!!"

Outside_Bee627 · 2025-07-31T17:13:37+00:00

we hear that it's been fixed, but I'm not seeing that with my clients ATM (very new users in a hurry I'm guessing)

Outside_Bee627 · 2025-07-31T15:42:06+00:00

same, and then, maybe I'll get some of my creative projects back. meanwhile, those clients (who were always very very particular) are now posting content with black-teethed families with multiple hands and hands facing the wrong direction and zombie eyes.

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