The Trail endpapers [for Scholastic]

[Wingshaw]

Wow, the penmanship on this is outstanding! Well done, John. A little parcel of rep is heading your way...

Wingshaw

[Akae]

Whouaaaaah It's crazy! Amazing work!!!

[Sapiento]

Excellent work!

[DanielHasenbos]

My! This is amazing work, even for your standards! These maps are absolutely great.

[J.Edward]

Wow, John!

Just.... incredible

You put the rest of us to shame! LOL!

Thank you Mouse
I've always felt I was in good company here at the Guild.
We have so much awesome work here and I'm always glad to be included.

The images of the animals are splendid! Congratulations

Thank you JO
I don't do animals enough. Or any lifeforms, fo rthat matter.

I can't rep you again just yet, but fantastic work, J. Those critters are great!

No worries Diamond. Thank you.
I have been told that I need to draw more critters. Maybe I will.

Beautiful work, J.

Thank you K
I need to do a map with a rabbit and an ox sometime.

Wow, the penmanship on this is outstanding! Well done, John. A little parcel of rep is heading your way...

Wingshaw

Thank you Wingshaw
There were several redoes and edits along the way.

Whouaaaaah It's crazy! Amazing work!!!

Thanks Akae

Excellent work!

Thanks so much Sap

My! This is amazing work, even for your standards! These maps are absolutely great.

Thank you Dan
Very much appreciated.

[Ilanthar]

Awesome... One (of the numerous) thing I admire with your work is the way you manage to "blend" your gorgeous illustrations and the map proper... Out of curiosity, how did you chose to put the map diagonally? It proves very efficient.

[Tom]

Gorgeous illustrations and map John, I love all those little pencil strokes!

[ChickPea]

Absolutely gorgeous! And thanks for sharing the pics of the maps in the book. They look amazing.

I've unfortunately burned my repping powers on the challenge entries today, but I'll come back.

[ProfGremlin]

Thank you for sharing. I've always enjoyed maps in books, it somehow made the story more tangible. Readers of Toby's Journey will feel as if they walk alongside him with such illustrations you've added.

[J.Edward]

Awesome... One (of the numerous) thing I admire with your work is the way you manage to "blend" your gorgeous illustrations and the map proper... Out of curiosity, how did you chose to put the map diagonally? It proves very efficient.

Thanks Ilanthar
I had a lot of tral that I needed to show and diagonal allowed me to show it closer in than horizontally.
Plus it had the added benefit of giving me more room for illustrations. And also just looked better.

Gorgeous illustrations and map John, I love all those little pencil strokes!

Thank you Tom

Absolutely gorgeous! And thanks for sharing the pics of the maps in the book. They look amazing.

I've unfortunately burned my repping powers on the challenge entries today, but I'll come back.

Thanks ChickPea
I was eager to show the in book pics, as i find it cool to see those sorts of pics too.
No worries on rep.

Thank you for sharing. I've always enjoyed maps in books, it somehow made the story more tangible. Readers of Toby's Journey will feel as if they walk alongside him with such illustrations you've added.

You're welcome Gremlin and thank you for commenting.
That is one thing that is really rewarding when doing some of my work - the knowledge that one of my maps might be the thing that really sticks in a kid's mind after reading a story they like.
I had loads of those memories of cool maps and great stories. It's cool to be a part of that.