Lucy Meets a Logger

Project Overview

Lucy Meets a Logger by Stephanie Fuller is the third book in Stephanie Fuller’s forestry education series, following Sam Visits a Sawmill and Travis Visits a Tree Farm through another stage of the timber journey — this time, the logging operation itself. When Lucy meets Mr. Logger and his woodland companions, she learns how trees are responsibly harvested, how forests are replenished, and how many everyday items begin their life in a managed forest. Fuller continues her approach of treating young readers as genuinely curious people capable of understanding complex systems, making the content feel like discovery rather than instruction.

The illustration challenge was making a logging operation feel exciting and respectful simultaneously — heavy machinery and felled trees needed to read as part of a careful, sustainable process rather than destruction, keeping the visual tone aligned with the story’s message of stewardship.

Role

The illustration challenge was making a logging operation feel exciting and respectful at once. Heavy machinery and felled trees needed to read as part of a careful, sustainable process rather than destruction, keeping the visual tone aligned with the story’s message of stewardship throughout.

Full illustration across the book covered character design for Lucy, Mr. Logger, and their woodland companions, forest logging environment and machinery illustration, visual storytelling aligned with sustainability messaging, and print-ready file preparation for Mascot Books.

Character Design

Before a single page is illustrated, I develop the main characters in full — defining their proportions, expressions, and personality. This is the foundation that keeps your characters recognizable and consistent across every scene, every lighting condition, and every emotional moment in the project.

Process

Every project follows this same structured path, so you always know where we are and what comes next. You review and approve at the sketch stage and the line art stage — nothing moves to color until you’re happy. By the time the final spread is rendered, there are no surprises.