Home (boy... and crab)

Ahh. Illustration Friday again. My oasis at the end of the week. This week's subject is 'home'. I kind of cheated on this one. I've used an exising illustration but tweeked it. It's a spread from a children's book that I've been trying to get published for the past year.

I went to NY and met with art directors from Greenwillow (HarperCollins) and Hyperion last November. The art director from Hyperion didn't seem too impressed with my work. She said my spreads (the one I'm posting now) was too 'slick'. The art director from Greenwillow seemed to really like my stuff, but alas I've yet to illustrate a children's book.

When I saw that this week's subject was home, I thought it was a perfect opportunity to start re-working my book, since my book is called 'The Perfect Home'.




Here is the original.