Tips For Living Green - Shopping

Book 3 in this series dealt with what to buy that is eco-friendly. It took a long time to put all the background stuff on the shelves and I wish I had a bit more time to make them a little more diverse, but the effect looks really good. The challenge for me was they wanted a department store, so I had to make the walls and shelving a uniform look, which limited what I could do with it, but I think I was able to add enough details in displays to give each spread a different look.

Here is the cover:


And here are some of the interior spreads:






I thought I would include a sketch as well. This is pretty rough, but my style is simple enough I didn't feel the need to do a lot of details on the sketch. Naturally, the sketches for the first book I did a lot more cleaning up and made it more refined, but as the books progressed I loosened up a lot. Once I submitted the final illustrations for book one, the art directors had a clear idea as to the style and the direction for the next tree books, so the sketches became more about the layout and making sure I had all the facts included.