EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS
Dead Before They Fall
A Small Book full of Illustrated Short Spooky Stories
A collection of four short stories, the only connection between the stories is through fall, winter and death.
Cover Art
Cover Spread and Interior Title Page
Into The Woods
Example of Illustrations, Layouts and Page Spreads
A story about the struggle of loyalty and friendship in the face of a moral dilemma, and how fragile trust can be.
A Glimpse into the Personal Practice
Thumbnails, layouts, and planning. Lots of planning.
To begin I wrote the manuscript, from there I had to decided which parts of each story to illustrate.
With consideration for the extra pages necessary for things such as the copyright and contact info — I roughed out thumbs of what the spreads would look like.
My next step was to create a running Indesign document formatted to the books specs.
I dropped in the working manuscript, left room for the spot and page illustrations and exported the pages out.
I dropped those pages into photoshop and began my illustration process.
Due to working on the illustrations and writing the stories simultaneously I made sure to keep in mind how the stories would be reformatted once they had gone through an editor.
Rough Color and Layout
Final Illustration and Layout
Single Pages
Stand alone editorial pieces.
Below is a collection of individual pieces, that are either personal projects or school projects, that I used as an exercise in Editorial Illustrations.
Devil Went Down to Georgia...
...and Opened a Tattoo Shop.
A fun spin on a fun occupation. This Tattoo Artist may have taken a short cut at the crossroads.
2021 | 9x12 | Traditional Media. Mixed Media.