1. Wowzer! It’s been a big year. I haven’t had any time to post here so, be warned - this might be a big one. I have had 5 books published this year, 2 of which I authored and 3 that I illustrated. The illustration project was huge and ate up most of the first half of the year. I did manage to write a STEM reader for Canadian publisher Rubicon in the midst of that but cannot seem to get a hold of the book online to post here. Let it be known however that Climate, an engineering reader for GL3 is out there somewhere. It was well-received by the publisher but I have no idea how the readership and subsequent purchaser Pearson felt about it. More to come on that at a later date.
    Macmillan Educational commissioned me to do a series of grammar books entitled Grammar Way earlier this. I declined the offer to write them but did end up illustrating them. A few of the illustrations were shown here on a previous post - digital art using an iPad Pro, an Apple Pencil and software Procreate. The covers and a few more images are pasted below.











    The Colour Thief authored by Sylvia Sikundar and I and published this year by Tulika in 12 languages was nominated for the Children’s Choice Award in India.


    More news to come in the next post.
    CREATE EVERY DAY!!!


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  2. For those who don’t know, Procreate is an iPad app, a drawing and a painting software that provides multiple layers, media and other options to save your art in a variety of formats that can be uploaded and shared either to a desktop computer or with other networks. One of the features of Procreate that I really like is that it saves a time-lapse video of your art creation process. I’m linking to a video I just uploaded to my YouTube channel below so you can get the idea. It has been edited and sped up for brevity.

    I have been working on a series of books for a publisher on the subject of English Grammar and Composition. Here are a few of the illustrations completed using Procreate.




    The texture has been created by adding a scanned canvas layer set to multiply. 
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I am a Canadian author/illustrator of fiction and non-fiction for both trade and educational publishers in Canada, the US, and abroad. I have written 4 trade books for Orca books, illustrated and written over 2 dozen picture books and am coauthor/illustrator of an environmental middle-grade fiction series for Harper Collins Children's Books in India. Email: steve@stephenaitken.com
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PUBLISHED BOOKS
Sonu & the Metal Elephant
What a Tree Has Seen
What a Tree Has Seen
What a Tree Has Seen
Santillana USA
The Ice Berries
The Ice Berries
The Ice Berries
Puffin Book of Bedtime Stories
The Mountain that Loved a Bird (Chinese Edition)
The Mountain that Loved a Bird (Chinese Edition)
The Mountain that Loved a Bird (Chinese Edition)
Hunan Juvenile and Children's Publishers
Rat Race
Rat Race
Rat Race
Zaner Bloser
The Everything Tarot Book
The Everything Tarot Book
The Everything Tarot Book
Adam's Media
Norse Wisdom Cards
Norse Wisdom Cards
Let's Learn Hindi
Let's Learn Hindi
Let's Learn Hindi
Sterling Publishers
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