As chance would have it…

…authors Patty McGuigan & Marian Lye were lucky enough to meet a talented young artist, Rebekah Reif, who would go on to illustrate Leonardo and the Time Travelers.

An up-and-coming artist, Rebekah has a natural talent for drawing, and amazed her collaborators on this project with every new scene she sketched out. Fresh out of art school at School of Art and Design at New England College, Rebekah took the characters that Patty & Marian had written, and brought them to life in drawings filled with energy, character and charisma.

Rebekah specializes in comics and enjoys drawing stories from battles to slices of everyday life. With her pen, paper and iPad, Rebekah gave Nardi his mischievous brow; Jack his confident grin; Nick his thoughtful eyes; and Poppy her defiant attitude. Rebekah uses a combination of good old-fashioned sketching by hand, and modern digital illustration techniques. She is based in Portland, Oregon.

In this time lapse of her process of creating a drawing, you can see all the layers of detail and attention that go into making each character shine!