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Magic Tree House

Visual development and design work for Magic Tree House, spanning an in-world King Arthur book prop, illustration, merchandise, and bookmarks.

2026 · Designer · Illustrator · Spuree · Internship

During my internship at Spuree, I created visual assets for Magic Tree House across multiple parts of the production, from an in-world King Arthur book cover to merchandise, bookmarks, and character-driven product concepts.

Book cover artwork for a King Arthur volume in the Magic Tree House series, showing front cover, spine, and back cover.

Created during my internship at Spuree for the Magic Tree House production. I designed and illustrated all of the work shown here.

In-World Design

The King Arthur artwork was created as the cover of a book Jack holds in the production. I developed several directions, including a version with a custom Frog Creek Library sticker.

Cover with library sticker

Full wrap cover for a book titled King Arthur: on the back, a boy in a dark cloak raises a sword toward a castle on a hill above a short description; on the spine, the title in gold; on the front, the crowned boy in silhouette with a sword in stone. A small Frog Creek Library sticker sits at the bottom of the back cover.

Library sticker

Developing the Cover

I developed the cover from an early pencil layout into colored and fully rendered directions. Multiple versions were approved, and no single version has been confirmed as the final production cover.

Pencil layout

Color draft

Colored draft of the King Arthur wrap cover: the back cover still in pencil, and the spine and front cover colored, with the crowned figure in a dark cloak, a sword in stone, and gold lettering.

Extending the World

I also created bookmark illustrations and a standalone treehouse illustration for the project.

Bookmark illustrations

Line-art illustration of five bookmark strips laid side by side into one scene: pterosaurs and long-necked dinosaurs on the left, a tyrannosaur, triceratops and other dinosaurs in the middle, a treehouse, a lamp-lit sign reading Frog Creek, a house on a hill, and a small book box with a frog at the right.

Treehouse illustration

Painterly illustration of a large oak tree with twisting roots, a small brick treehouse on one branch, and a yellow rope ladder hanging down.

Additional Editorial Spreads

I also designed and illustrated a series of dinosaur editorial spreads for the production, researching and writing the educational copy alongside the original illustration and page layout.

Two-page editorial spread titled Pteranodon: body text about the flying reptile in two columns, a large brown pteranodon soaring across the top of the spread, a smaller crested pteranodon perched at the lower left, and a Fast Facts box on the right with a wingspan diagram beside a human silhouette and a fish illustration.

Two-page editorial spread titled Brachiosaurus: body text wrapping around a tall, long-necked brachiosaurus that rises through the center of the spread, with a Fast Facts box at the lower left showing an engraved illustration of its legs, and a human silhouette for scale at the lower right.

Two-page editorial spread titled Tyrannosaurus Rex: a Fast Facts box with an engraved illustration of its two-clawed arms, body text, a green T. rex with open jaws on the left page, and a larger orange T. rex shown to scale beside a human silhouette, labeled 17 feet by 40 feet, on the right page.

Merchandise + Character Application

I explored product applications through front-and-back plush concepts for Jack and Annie.

Front and back 2D plush sketch of Jack: a boy with tousled brown hair and round red glasses, a yellow t-shirt, brown cuffed shorts, and red sneakers.

Front and back 2D plush sketch of Annie: a girl with blonde pigtails, a light-blue t-shirt with a heart-shaped paw print, dark pants, and black sneakers.

Approved for Production

The featured directions were approved for production. The project is currently still in production.