Joshua Menas

Seems like you can do some pretty detailed work in Adobe Ideas, but I've been using it mostly to rough out compositions and color ideas like the images below. I still feel more comfortable fine tuning my ideas with a pencil and paper.

Here are some rough sketches for the first few illustrations in the book I'm working on. The colored sketch was done in Adobe Ideas on the iPad! WOOO!

I just started illustrating a children's book this week. It's a story my grandmother wrote a long time ago about a boy and a snowflake. I'm hoping to sell the book on the iBooks store when it's finished. Helping me out with the layout and publishing duties is an iPad app called, Book Creator . It's great for creating fixed layout picture books. You can open previews of your book directly in iBooks as you go. The app publishes out to a standard ePub file which should also work on devices other than the iPad.