J.L.Meyer

Digital & Ink Artist of Animals & Fantasy

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Welcome to my FAQ

I'm a freelance digital color/ traditional ink/ happy pencil artist living in the US south
It's just me and my one lovely agent Shannon Associates.
(occasionally bunnies, birds, and frogs come by to say hi! =)

Where can I buy your stuff:

I have only 2 places with my prints, occasional bookmarks, and books online (its super rare for me to sell originals): My store and a store for Magic The Gathering. Because of contract obligations I can't sell my art on any free sites (ex: Red Bubble/Zazzle/Instagram etc).

• My Online Store

• OMA (Magic the Gathering store)

What media do you work in? How big are your originals?

Pencil : mechanical pencil. Sizes : 0.3, 0.5, and a 1.1. With Pentel or Kuru Toga leads at 2B and B. Going to try Neox Graphite. Generally on the look out for a smooth dark line. Always love the Kuru Toga mechanical pencils.

Ink : I work with Copic Multiliner SP 0.05, 0.03 and 0.1. I also use a white gel pen, the Uniball signo.

Color : for my book illustrations, I use Photoshop with a Cintiq. I do the drawings by hand then scan them to paint digitally. My online color sketches (seen on Twitter and Instagram) are usually done in copic marker and pens ( copic sp multiliner or Faber Castell size F) or in Photoshop.

Size : I work small, many of my online sketches are done in a 5x7 hardbound sketchbook. The White Rabbit shown is about 3 inches tall. Most of my client work is done to size. I work bigger on covers and things that need to look tighter when finished.

For the White Rabbit, I colored the lines brown in Photoshop then set it to multiply and painted under the lines

Below: Drawn by hand then digitally painted in Photoshop (like above).
reads: top left then down
I used light and color in here to help the story. Light for eye direction, emotional indication, and symbolic meaning. Red was both for the climax/potential danger and historically accurate to the area (I enjoy doing research)

What books have you illustrated

Comics anthology/short stories I have done art for

(PB) Picture Book (BB) Board Book (GN) Graphic Novel
*I illustrated the interiors, not the covers, of these books.

Above is the cover for Star Wars Adventures: Chewbacca.

Who are your biggest influences?

It was fun to do Art inspired My Little Pony Covers .

Alphonse Mucha
Albert Bierstadt
Waterhouse
T. S. Sullivant
Kawase Hasui
Classic National Park Posters
Frederic Church

What comic covers have you done?

I love working on comic covers!! Here are a few of em. The wonderful people at mlp merch has a list of all mlp covers if you are collecting.

• Cover list at MLP Merch

What cards have you done?

I did Twilight Sparkle for the Magic the Gathering card, 2 cards for Duel Masters and cards for Bella Sara.

Do you take commissions?

About commissions: I am occasionally open to commissions around my deadlines, it can be a wait. They can be in pencil/pen/digital paint or copic marker, size would be around 5x7 or 8x10. Will consider animals or pet portraits (past examples: Bunny Queen, Ballerina Fox, Bunny warrior, and tiny elephant with flower)

These are both pet portraits, I was asked for the top bunny to be doing Eskrima martial arts (digital color) and the bottom to be based around the Queen with a big dewlap (copic markers).

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Illustrations

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Published illustrated Books

Saving Emma the Pig

A picture book of Emma seen in the documentary the Biggest Little Farm, written by John Chester. You can see more of Emma at Apricot Lanes Farm beautiful website.

If I Could Give You Christmas

A picture book written by Lynn Plourde about the most important thing of the season is being together.

Calpurnia Tate Series

A 6 book series by Jacqueline Kelly. I illustrated in pen and Ink with grey washes in Photoshop. It is about a girl interested in Vet/Natural Sciences in 1901 Texas.

Lily to the Rescue Series

I illustrated 4 books by W. Bruce Cameron
Lily to the Rescue (1st in the series), Two Little Piggies, The Not-So-Stinky skunk, and Dog Dog Goose.

Cover Die and interior page for A Little Owl

Select Published Comics

Fox and Crow

A comic short adapted by me and published by First Second books in Fable Comics.

Puss in Boots

I illustrated the short story Puss in Boots published in Jim Henson's Storyteller.

The Bunny General

Story and art by me.
The Bunny General: Attack at Mushroom Pass.

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Sketches from Twitter

I'm a digital/pencil artist that has illustrated over 21 books, comic covers and cards. My artwork has won two awards from Society of Illustrators West and been featured several times in Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art.

Select Clients: Disney, Fisher Price, Little Brown & Company, Dark Horse Comics, Tor, WOTC, Macmillan, IDW, Scholastic, Square Fish, Harper Festival Books, First Second

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Personal art, Photo Studies, experiments, trying out different ideas, ways of working, various thoughts, and techniques.

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Photo Studies

Original Photo credits: Chickens from Apricot Lane Farms, Hummingbird: Bianca Soares (@hijadelbosque), Tulips: me, Duck: several screen shots of viral video.
Humans: Howard Lyon's Photo reference

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