Deborah Melmon has illustrated over fifty children's books which include picture books, readers and board books. As a free-lance artist, she has also designed greeting cards, gift wrap and fabric. Deborah graduated from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and continues to live in the Bay Area with a nutty terrier named Mack.
Her illustration process is a hybrid of pencil sketches, hand-painted backgrounds and textures which she scans into Photoshop and then manipulates digitally. Deborah loves to create work that is fun and engaging for kids with lots of details and humor.