Cover for To be Free by John Fpster Dyess
February is Black History Month and I will be posting illustrations I have created for stories in text books about African American history.This is the cover for a book ,published by Steck-Vaughn, about a slave that escaped from a plantation. Below are some of the illustrations I created for this story.
illustration by John Foster Dyess
illustration by John Foster Dyess
illustration by John Foster Dyess
illustration by John Foster Dyess
Hey, Old Henry looks a lot like you. Your work is always wonderful. Is this another student posting?
Yes I was the model but used the photo reference as a starting point and the drawing became an African American. This wasn’t a student posting.