Jen Sheckels

Illustration for "The Crab Who Played With the Sea," from "Just So Stories" by Rudyard Kipling. Mixed media on illustration board. ©2017 Jen Sheckels

Illustration for "The Cat Who Walked By Himself," from "Just So Stories" by Rudyard Kipling. Mixed media on illustration board. ©2017 Jen Sheckels

Cover illustration for an alternate version of "Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla" by Katherine Applegate. Mixed media on illustration board. ©2017 Jen Sheckels

"Howl's Moving Castle," © 2016 Jen Sheckels. Mixed media on illustration board, 14.25” x 10.13”. Graduate work, final illustration—created in conjunction with the ILLU721-OL course at SCAD. Illustration series project, 1 of 3: Cover wrap for a paperback reprint.

"Theodor Geisel," © 2016 Jen Sheckels. Mixed media on illustration board, 10" x 14". Graduate work, final illustration—created in conjunction with the ILLU721-OL course at SCAD. Complimentary illustration series 1 of 2, focusing on children's authors.

"Jacqueline Woodson," © 2016 Jen Sheckels. Mixed media on illustration board, 10" x 14". Graduate work, final illustration—created in conjunction with the ILLU721-OL course at SCAD. Complimentary illustration series 2 of 2, focusing on children's authors.

"Party Turtle," © 2016 Jen Sheckels. Mixed media on paper, 9" x 6". Graduate work, final illustration—created in conjunction with the ILLU721-OL course at SCAD. Exercise in media techniques using pen, watercolor, and digital applications on the theme "birthday."

"Hummingbirds," © 2016 Jen Sheckels. Mixed media. Graduate work, final illustration—created in conjunction with the ILLU730-OL course at SCAD. Initial design work for our pattern project using ink and digital color.

"Summer Hummingbird" pattern © 2016 Jen Sheckels. Graduate work, final illustration—created in conjunction with the ILLU730-OL course at SCAD. Using ink and digital color to create a repeating pattern, which was then applied to various prototypes.

"Making Memories," 2016. Pastel on Wallis paper, 16"x12". Graduate work, final illustration—created in conjunction with the ILLU727-OL course at SCAD. For this project, we were required to illustrate a fortune cookie fortune. The fortune received: "A new voyage will fill your life with untold memories."

"A Man and His Tortoise," 2016. Pastel on Wallis paper, 16"x12". Graduate work, final illustration—created in conjunction with the ILLU714-OL course at SCAD. For this project, we were required to illustrate a look-alike pairing of a human and their pet. During the comp stage I really fell in love with the comparisons between the older man and his tortoise, so it's what I chose to develop for the final piece.

"The Hogfather," © 2015 Jen Sheckels. Pastel on sand-coated paper. Graduate work, final illustration—created in conjunction with the ILLU503-OL course at SCAD. Book cover illustration project: "Hogfather," by Terry Pratchett.

"The Last Dragon" - Illustration for the Recorded Books audiobook cover for "The Last Dragon" by Silvana De Mari. Pastel on sand-coated paper.