Christianity Today Reviews Jesus Storybook Bible

Christianity Today Magazine have reviewed The Jesus Storybook Bible and they love it! They say nice things about my illustrations too, here's an excerpt:

The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name disproves the adage that you can't judge a book by its cover.

Jago's award-winning cover art is a foretaste of the whimsically insightful and richly colored drawings that await you on every one of the book's 351 pages. The illustrations alone are worth the price of the book.

Did you ever wonder what Jacob's face looked like the morning after his wedding night, when he woke up in bed with a different woman than the one he thought he had married — Leah instead of Rachel? Jago did, and what he imagined and drew made me laugh out loud.

Jago the illustrator, and Sally Lloyd-Jones the author, are a good pair.....

Read the full review here.

John Scieszka - National Ambassador for Young People's Literature

One of my favourite authors, John Scieszka has been named the Library of Congress's first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. Listen to a short interview with him, where he also mentions that his his newest book is the first book in a planned series of 50!

Cover sketches

Here's some cover sketches for my latest book, which is nearing completion....

More Greetings from San Francisco

Heres another experiment with a restricted set of layers and the addition of a texture... not an image I'd have arrived at directly. Will post the actual image this for when I have permission....

Greetings from San Francisco....

Just creating a colour separated version of a new illustration and discovered this interesting layer, looks a bit Chris Ware - like to me...

My 100 Most Interesting Flickr Photos

Painter X

Trying out a demo of Painter X, seems to be a LOT faster than IX and the drawing tools feel like they've improved too.....

Latest experiment

Trying out some tree and bird brushes I just made.....

New York, New York

My little brother has just returned from a trip to New York, with some gifts and lots to tell us....

Moonbeam Children's Book Awards - Gold Medal

My Gold medal for the Moonbeam Children's Book Award that the Jesus
Storybook Bible won, has arrived! Huzzah! I've never won an actual
medal before....

It's really heavy (solid gold I expect) and came with a ribbon and
everything!

I shall wear it with pride.... all the time.

Happy Christmas!

From Jago, Alex and Lily Peach

Chris Stonehill has a blog!

... and you should visit it! (click on the image below)



He's planning on posting new sketches daily, something I failed miserably at, let's hope he's better at it than me. I certainly look forward to seeing more of the same...

Big boat

Just a quick experiment...

Lord of the Flies

Here's a recent illustration for Lord of the Flies. Slightly different technique used here, incorporating some methods I used to use at college (dark tree like texture applied to whole image, then erased in a scribbly fashion with v small eraser brush).

Some recent work...

A teaser for some new work....

Bible wins Gold at the Independent Publishers Moonbeam Awards!

Bible wins Gold at the Independent Publishers Moonbeam Awards!

Very pleased that the bible I spent a long time illustrating has won an award, (click below to read more about the awards). This coincides nicely with the book's 2nd print run, which brings the total number of books in print to 61,000!

Independent Publisher Moonbeam Awards

Congratulations!

JenunTom Wedding card.jpg
Originally uploaded by Jagosilver.

Congrata-bloomin-lations to my little sister Jen and her husband Tom, here's the wedding card I made them. They are both working in theatre and got married in one, hence the theme....

Scraper-board on it's own...

Here's the scraper-board illo I posted yesterday, before it was photoshopped.

Digital Scraper-board

I've never used scraper-board before but was inspired to do so after browsing Jim Bradshaw's (fellow SFG-er and excellent illustrator) new site and blog. He mentioned using Painter's scraper-board tool and I realised I never had, here's what I came up with:



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