Illustration from The Happy Robot

2005
Digital collage
7" x 9 "

Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince has alays been one of my favorite stories. In 2005 I wrote The Happy Robot—which puts a 21st century spin on the story—and created a series of digital illustrations for it.

The robot (yes, she's crying; she's no longer happy at this point in the story), started as a photo of my daughter Rachel, which I took into Photoshop and manipulated (anyone recognize where her ear came from?). The robot bird was a 3-D model that I created with Infini-D. Other elements include photos of trees, paint spatters and strokes, tree bark, and other fun stuff.

You can read the story and see more illustrations here (you may have to disable your pop-up blocker to see it).

I also created a short animated film narrating the introduction to the book.