This is some back-and-forth I did with a client trying to nail down what artistic style they wanted for a kid's scripture iPad app. This was the first image I sent them when they wanted to see a simple children's illustration:
They liked it, but were looking for something simpler, so I gave them these two images:
But they wanted something even simpler, sort of in the style that a child might draw. So I spent about thirty minutes sketching out these:
And this was the style that they ended up liking.