{"id":1034,"date":"2010-08-03T07:32:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T13:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2010-08-03T07:33:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T13:33:26","slug":"interview-childrens-book-illustrators-jennifer-l-meyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/interview-childrens-book-illustrators-jennifer-l-meyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Children’s Book Illustrators — Jennifer L. Meyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

When did you get started illustrating for children? What did you do before?<\/strong>
\nI started a few years ago when I was asked by Harper to do work for the Bella Sara books. Before that I was doing art for RPGs. In fact I had been working (freelance) with the Bella Sara company (Hidden City Entertainment) on their Clout game before they picked up Bella Sara. I enjoyed the move and the chance to draw horses. I am a fan of drawing animals.<\/p>\n

I understand much of your current work is for the chapter book Bella Sara series the most recent one, #11: Amia and the Ice Gems by Felicity Brown came out recently. Can you tell us about the books and your involvement in them?<\/strong>
\nI had been working on the cards for a tad when the license for the books were picked up by Harper Festival. I believe it was around the time of the Magical Creature set (I remember they liked the Lien card) Harper approached several artists working on the cards at the time. I felt very lucky, the Bella Sara books were fun to work on.<\/p>\n

Can you share any of the preliminary art for the books you recently completed?<\/strong>
\nSure. Here are several roughs.<\/p>\n