Showing posts with label kidlitart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kidlitart. Show all posts
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Friday, April 15, 2016
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Illustration and Poetry (With Cats!)
"Love is the mystery of water and a star." –Pablo Neruda
April is National Poetry Month. Below is a new piece of art inspired by this
snippet of a poem, step-by-step, working backwards. Enjoy!
April is National Poetry Month. Below is a new piece of art inspired by this
snippet of a poem, step-by-step, working backwards. Enjoy!
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| After much fussing over details... the final art! |
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| Building up the color. |
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| Another view from the drawing table. |
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| First pencil layer. |
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| Rough color thoughts and a few tweaks on a printout of the sketch. |
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| The original pencil sketch. |
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| Sketchbook thumbnails. (No wonder I can't read my own handwriting!) |
Thursday, January 7, 2016
Sketchy Squares
Sometimes in the middle of a deadline, along with the joy of making art for a book that you are completely over-the-top excited about*, there's an urge to break out and try something new.
A few months ago I cracked open a sketchbook, new ink, a tiny set of travel paints, and a bunch of watercolor pencils I'd been meaning to play with for a long time. The goal was only to make small, quick drawings of whatever was floating around in my head at the time, and to keep it loose. (Must squash that perfectionist beast that makes you tighten up and question every mark on the page!) Each is only about 3" square.
This exercise has turned into relaxing little breaks that fit in the crevices of my day between other projects. Also, it's FUN! You might want to try it sometime.
Here are some of the drawings. I also post them over on Instagram...
*The book is CHARLES DARWIN'S AROUND-THE-WORLD ADVENTURE (Abrams, 2016), coming out in October! Woohoo! (More about this, soon!)
A few months ago I cracked open a sketchbook, new ink, a tiny set of travel paints, and a bunch of watercolor pencils I'd been meaning to play with for a long time. The goal was only to make small, quick drawings of whatever was floating around in my head at the time, and to keep it loose. (Must squash that perfectionist beast that makes you tighten up and question every mark on the page!) Each is only about 3" square.
This exercise has turned into relaxing little breaks that fit in the crevices of my day between other projects. Also, it's FUN! You might want to try it sometime.
Here are some of the drawings. I also post them over on Instagram...
*The book is CHARLES DARWIN'S AROUND-THE-WORLD ADVENTURE (Abrams, 2016), coming out in October! Woohoo! (More about this, soon!)
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