In 2015, Crossway published The Biggest Story, a best-selling children's book written by Kevin DeYoung and illustrated by Don Clark.

This month, we're pleased to release The Biggest Story Bible Storybook, a follow-up to that first book featuring 104 individual Bible stories, again written by DeYoung and illustrated by

Clark. Today I'm excited to share a conversation I recently had with Don Clark, an award-winning

artist who's worked for organizations including Nike, Apple, Disney, NASA, and many others. We discuss what appealed to him and what scared him about illustrating the stories of the Bible,

his approach and intentions with his artwork both for kids and for adults, and what the artistic

process actually looked like over the two years he was working on this project.

Let's get started.

Well, Don, thank you so much for joining me today on the Crossway podcast.

Oh, it's my pleasure.

I'm excited to be here.

It's been a long time coming.

Yeah, yeah.

Crossway and you have a long history together and it is fun to have this monumental project kind of now in the in the back.

Yeah, I can't believe it.

I mean, you know, I just finished last October and here we are in March.

And, you know, when you're working on something this big, you kind of, you think about this moment a little bit, you're like, well, gosh, there's going to be a time where it's done, you know, but it's so far off that, you know, you don't give it too much thought. But here we are. I wanted to ask about that because I would imagine that for someone embarking on a project of this scale, you illustrated over a hundred Bible stories. And, you know, these are, every page has illustration on it in this big book i could imagine that

would feel pretty monumental and maybe intimidating overwhelming especially at the beginning

uh how did you get started that's a great question because i think you know i was kind of in fear

for a long time i had worked on the biggest story the first book that we put out i, in 2016 or 2015. And that was kind of going to, that was going to be like, you know, hey, this

is my Bible. You know, I've been, you know, tasked with creating this work of art and it's going

to be out there and I'm excited, boom. And then Josh Dennis and I got to talking and it was like, what if we did the entire

Bible? What if we started, you know, we really expanded kind of what we had done. And we agreed,

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