STEVEN SALERNO ILLUSTRATION: THE MAKING OF A BOOK
June 3, 2016
Steven Salerno’s latest children’s book project, “The Kid from Diamond Street,” published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, is now available everywhere, including Theispot Bookstore!
Steve’s loose-limbed illustrations of young athletes seem effortless, but hop over to his blog to get a peek at what went into the making of this modern classic. It all starts with a lot of brainstorming and manuscript margin doodles…
Then on to a progression of sketch stages to get to each piece of the final, magical color artwork:
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