Finn and Shiloh is a children’s book that I created with my Sister, Lisa Owens, and Daughter, Stella Abercrombie. This project is unlike most others I’ve done, but many past experiences came into play during the production.
My background in print publishing was especially useful during the final stretch when I was cleaning up my files, and setting up bleeds and margins for the press.
The project went through many changes over the last two-years. Initially, I was illustrating all of the animals and background scenes, but I never zoned in on the perfect look for the characters. This is when I approached my Daughter Stella to contribute the animal drawings. Stella brought a child’s perspective and created some really cute characters.
In the end, I worked on text edits and refinements to improve the story flow, and also creating vectors of my Daughter’s drawings to add to my illustrated backgrounds.
This is a serialized story that will continue in a second and third book hopefully publishing in 2021/2022.
Available on AMAZON.COM.
