You have such talent!

Sharing is caring, thanks for the inspiration, not inspiration to follow in your amazing footsteps. but to leave illustrating to professionals like you. I have children’s books bubbling up inside me and you or other illustrators would do the message so much more justice.

I came to Hawaii for 3 months to write the kiddies books. That was the intention. I have been here for 7 weeks and it has been more of a process of gathering inspiration that getting it out. I know the message and have had it for some time now. It will come out at the perfect time. I know that. In the mean time, I am having the holiday of a lifetime!

Where are you based? I am from South Africa and am an architect that has been living and working in Dubai for the last 2 years. I know I have more to give the world than more skyscrapers and that is why I am doing what I am doing.

Thanks for sharing your gift!

Dani Jones nos trae un tutorial…..

http://ihatedesign.frih.net/blog/tutoriales-ilustrar-un-libro-de-ninos/

chickengirl - The cover was printed on matte photo paper. Epson sells a good paper, but this particular project is printed on Staples brand which I like also. The interior was printed on just white card stock. Because the sketches weren’t full-color, the color accuracy/contrast was not as important, and it is cheaper. It was printed using a regular inkjet printer - mine is a Canon. In fact, it just went dead for some unknown reason, now that I mention it. Grrr…

Melissa - Yes, I’m aware of that feature and that is exactly what I used to create my pdf file - that probably wasn’t very clear the way I wrote it. I like creating the pdf’s first because InDesign takes FOREVER to load the artwork every time you print.

A possible headache saver: If you’ve got InDesign, under the File Menu, at the very bottom, should be an option for InBooklet SE (it may depend on if you’ve got Creative Suite or not). If you go ahead and layout your inDesign book in the correct page order (1, 2, 3, 4, etc.), then click on that option, it’ll walk you through an automated process that figures out how to layout the spreads for you, without you having to manually rearrange the page order. It will let you preview it, and make your page layout options (saddle stitch, page size, etc.), as well.