This year’s New England Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Conference Challenge was to “reinvent Jules Verne”. I illustrated a scene from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in which the Nautilus descends for the first time and is escorted by a multitude of ocean life who are drawn in by the vessel’s electric lights. I redesigned the Nautilus itself: giving it hydropower (thanks to my son for insisting), an organic shape and phosphorescence. The real fun for me was playing with the sense of depth and space in the picture which I pushed a step further with a red/green-blue displacement 3D effect that adds to the fun when viewed with a pair of 3D glasses!
