By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 12/20/2016
By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 11/23/2016
By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 11/16/2016
Great news... Charles Darwin's Around-the-World Adventure is on Amazon's list of Best Children's Books of the Year for 2016 in the Nonfiction category!
By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 10/13/2016
By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 10/10/2016
By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 10/6/2016
By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 10/4/2016
By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 9/29/2016
By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 8/2/2016
By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 7/21/2016
By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 6/15/2016
By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 5/19/2016
By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 5/11/2016
By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 4/26/2016
By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 4/15/2016
By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 4/13/2016
"Love is the mystery of water and a star." –Pablo Neruda
April is National Poetry Month. Below is a new piece of art inspired by this
snippet of a poem, step-by-step, working backwards. Enjoy!
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| After much fussing over details... the final art! |
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| Building up the color. |
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| Another view from the drawing table. |
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| First pencil layer. |
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| Rough color thoughts and a few tweaks on a printout of the sketch. |
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| The original pencil sketch. |
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| Sketchbook thumbnails. (No wonder I can't read my own handwriting!) |
By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 3/4/2016
I was recently commissioned to do a few maps for an upcoming book* due out later this year. A few people asked to see the final art after I posted some work-in-progress details over on Instagram, so here it is, along with some process show-and-tell.
Since I'm usually asked to illustrate places that exist in reality, this project was super interesting, because these were more fantasy-based maps.
In this case, the art director sent over detailed notes about the story, along with a rough sketch of how the author visualized the world in her head. This was all extremely helpful, and gave me a great starting point, yet still left a lot of creative freedom...
Below is the first sketch sent to the publisher. (I swear I had some tiny rough thumbnails, but they were lost in the flurry-of-paper that is my studio.)...
By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 2/12/2016
By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 2/9/2016
It's always fun to get copies of a new book with a map I've worked on inside.
This is from THE TURN OF THE TIDE, by Rosanne Parry (Random House BYR, 2016).
Yay!
By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 2/2/2016
I've been interviewed by the lovely Joanna Marple over at her blog, Miss Marple's Musings. Check it out!
By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 1/26/2016
A is for Abrams! (Also, "Awesome!" And "Aw yeah!")
By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 1/7/2016
Sometimes in the middle of a deadline, along with the joy of making art for a book that you are completely over-the-top excited about*, there's an urge to break out and try something new.
A few months ago I cracked open a sketchbook, new ink, a tiny set of travel paints, and a bunch of watercolor pencils I'd been meaning to play with for a long time. The goal was only to make small, quick drawings of whatever was floating around in my head at the time, and to keep it loose. (Must squash that perfectionist beast that makes you tighten up and question every mark on the page!) Each is only about 3" square.
This exercise has turned into relaxing little breaks that fit in the crevices of my day between other projects. Also, it's FUN! You might want to try it sometime.
Here are some of the drawings. I also post them over on Instagram...
By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 10/19/2015
By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 9/3/2015
By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 7/30/2015
Congratulations!
Thank you, Bigfoot! :-)
Big congratulations. Your illustrations look wonderful. Sure to become a very popular book with children and teachers.
Thank you so much for the kind words, June!