Book Printed! Stay tuned for purchasing info.

I am pleased to announce the printing of the first edition of my book! It will arrive to my doorstep within a few days, hopefully. After going thru 2 proofs I think it's finally up to standards. I have to say, Createspace does do a good job. It looks pretty professional, not too shabby at all, I must say. I have a whole marketing plan for it now which includes doing signings, readings, getting it into local bookstores, and hopefully getting it reviewed.

In other news, I've been working on a logo for an online lit/arts blog. Design above.

98 percent there!

So I finally got Lizzie Fox-Top finished and it's printing as I write this, so hopefully I'll see a proof sometime the end of this week/early next week and then.....it'll be available for mass consumption!! So excited this is finally happening. I am just nervous it'll turn out bad. I heard that the company I went with, Createspace (a subsidiary of Amazon that offers POD service with no upfront cost, which I find extremely appealing) doesn't use glossy paper for its color pages. We'll see.

Above is the logo I have designed for the publishing company I am starting to call my titles under. Ogopogo is a Canadian sea monster (who also happens to have a really fun name for your favorite whimsical yet slightly edgy children's book author/illustrator)! The colors are off on this jpeg though--the turquoise is actually a golden yellow, the orange is blue, the blue is red, the pink is purple, and the green is a more muted yellow-green. Oh well.

Allan/Allen/Alan

Workin' workin' workin' as you may or may not have assumed. Here is a logo I am developing for an Easter Seals camp in Maryland.

The Red Balloon

Another graphic for the programs for that DC children's theater I posted about earlier. This is the one where I took the most artistic license from what was sent to me. I basically did something completely different. I felt that because The Red Balloon was originally a live action film, it was more open to artistic interpretation than something already beloved and famously illustrated, like Go, Dog. Go!

Announcement!

So I have decided to release an old favorite of mine, a project I did a few years ago. I've updated and improved it, of course. It's called The Remarkable Encounter of the Mystical Jellyfish. A brief overview:

The Remarkable Encounter of the Mystical Jellyfish is an epic comic of undersea fantasy. Its surreal ink drawings and whimsical poetry will be sure to delight, disturb, and entertain people of all ages.

All that and much, much more! can be yours for $3.50 (plus shipping if I mail it to you). To get your copy, email me at stevie@steviefrench.com and I'll hook you up.

Banjo Sky

Decided to stay in tonight and draw. This is what I produced. I was listening to The Avett Brothers, a folk band that features the banjo, and I decided I just really needed to do a stream-of-consciousness featuring a banjo. I had a lot of fun uploading and then playing around in Photoshop. I really like the filter effect here ("film grain"), and even though the craziness and inconsistency of it was not planned it looks pretty cool. I might try to do this again on purpose at some point. It was applied after many layers of cutting, copying, pasting and redrawing. I didn't do much to the color of the drawing because I liked how it turned out to begin with. Just upped the saturation, esp. in the green ink. Good night, moon-banjo!

Skullz n Treez

Here's some wrapping paper I designed for promotional purposes. The pattern is smaller and there's more of it on the actual piece but it's easier to see the detail here when I crop it. This took many hours of labor as I needed to retrace everything in Illustrator after doing it in Photoshop--it just kept getting too pixelated. At least I got more practice at Illust., a program I dread. It's not such a horrible monster anymore.