"The Mighty Knights" - Book 3!

It is time for a new book in the "Mighty Knights" series!  The first book found brave brothers Harry and Thomas battling an imaginary dragon through the kitchen in the middle of the night.

Later, in the second installment we saw a tough little girl named Sapphire who, with the help of her timid friend Archer, battled a two-headed dragon from the heights of their tree house! 

Now, (or soon) we meet Amelia.  Amelia, like Sapphire, is a tough little chica with pals at the ready to battle the latest dragon in Peter Clark's "The Mighty Knights" books! I can say no more right now about the story, but here is a sneak peak at the character concept for little Amelia.

This project will be more of a collaboration as we develop the images and the text side by side.  I will be illustrating an outline from which the words will come to Peter.  Likewise, as the text evolves, I will be responding to Peter's writing.  Follow along as we develop this project!  Invite others to follow along and for those who are interested in one day illustrating and want to follow the process, here we go!

Not ready to have your whole children's book illustrated? We have a suggestion...

As an illustration studio we run across lots of authors who are not quite ready to take the plunge of illustrating their whole book for many reasons:

1. They may not have the manuscript fully developed.
2. They may not have the funds available.
3. They may be looking for the right artist to bring their script to life.

So we've come up with a simple solution; the single page illustration. Let me be a little more specific. You can get ONE page of your book illustrated for a flat fee of $300. 

Why is this a good idea?

1. There is no long term committment/contract like there is when you have your whole book illustrated.
2. It can help you figure out a style for your story.
3. This could help inspire further development of your story, break writers block, give you a starting point or get you feeling more comfortable and excited about your story.
4. Obviously this costs a lot less than paying for your whole book.
5. Could use the image to promote the book to publishers or on a crowdfunding campaign.
6. Help you feel confident in working with Kory and as an introduction to the process of having your book illustrated. 

So if this sounds like as good of an idea to you as it does to us, here is an idea of what the process would be doing this single page with KF Studios:

1. You contact Kory at kory.fluckiger@gmail.com or 801-759-5782 and tell him your interested.
2. You pay the $300 non refundable flat rate fee via Direct deposit through America First Credit Union, Check, PayPal (extra fee may apply), Venmo, Apple pay etc.
3. You send your manuscript if you have one or any other written thoughts about the story (in addition to what you have already told him about the story in your previous conversations.)
2. Kory will familiarize himself with the story and determine which scene or page seems to be most easily representative of the whole on its own. 
3. Kory would further collaborate with you over the phone or in person about any other peripheral information that may contribute to the image that wasn't explicit in the writing.
4. Kory will draw your picture.
5. You get your digital file!
6. You can print it and hang it in your workspace for inspiration, use it on your social media page, use it in your Kickstarter or other crowdfunding campaign, put it on your laptop screensaver and whatever else you can think of!

Well, if you are interested, be in touch!

Thanks! 
-The KF Studios team

Kory Fluckiger, Heather McKinnon and the rest of the little people. 

Introducing...

Hey all.  Allow me to introduce someone to you.  As you may know, this is a family business and no matter how small the job is, a quick sketch for the margin of a presentation, the vectorization of someone's old logo that they can't find the original file for, or the illustration of a 60 page picture book with full backgrounds and edge to edge bleed, it involves to whole family.  My lovely wife, Heather McKinnon, has been helping me out with some of the administrative side of the business and that includes this blog.  As she is a creative collaborator in all that I do, she is deeply involved in my work and relationship with my clients.  She is going to be making an effort to keep this blog running and to post regularly and relevantly!  Please watch for more posts to keep up on what is happening.