Manuscript Moodboard for Author's Social Media
Dystopian Plastic Wastelands

Dystopian Plastic Wastelands

Building the city one block at a time over building reference photobashing.

Building the city one block at a time over building reference photobashing.

Scifi Maglev Train

Scifi Maglev Train

Scifi MagGloves and Mag links to drag through the plastic in search for metal bits.

Scifi MagGloves and Mag links to drag through the plastic in search for metal bits.

Plastics Junkyard

Plastics Junkyard

Main Character

Main Character

My favorite view of the glowing scifi lights and two maglev trains.

My favorite view of the glowing scifi lights and two maglev trains.

Stay in your lane!

Stay in your lane!

Dr. Martens Boots. I used Adobe CaptureCC to make patterns for her clothing, leggings, and Dr Martens boots. Wish I could actually own these myself. :)

Dr. Martens Boots. I used Adobe CaptureCC to make patterns for her clothing, leggings, and Dr Martens boots. Wish I could actually own these myself. :)

I enjoyed creating this area of ground level city lights bouncing up onto the maglev track.

I enjoyed creating this area of ground level city lights bouncing up onto the maglev track.

Manuscript Moodboard for Author's Social Media

The client, Sylvia Liu, an author represented by Andrea Brown Literary Agency, commissioned a representative illustration for her science fiction manuscript. Being an author, she found it helpful to her audiences on social media to present a visual idea of her work in progress. She shared photos from a variety of sources to give me an idea the color palette and mood she was aiming for, clearly a dystopian future where junkyards are now overflowing with plastics instead of metal. In fact the hero of the story is a Chinese child who scrambles from the authorities while wearing mag gloves to detect valuable fragments of metal. Although Sylvia co-administrates the kidlit411 blog, this project was a new venture for her and more so for me as I moved from illustrating for young children to middle grade and young adult. This project allowed me to jump head first into science fiction imagery again but with a style geared towards young people.

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