Hey everyone,Just a few thoughts I wanted to share. I’m still going through Illustrating Children’s Books by Martin Salisbury. One section of the book deals with creating a sense of place in your images. The focus here is on using location drawing to inform your studio drawing. This has caused me to consider the spaces…
Hello friends. As I am on a forced hiatus due to work commitments I felt the need to include a quick post here on some of the learning I’ve been doing related to style and character concepts. In the book, The Skillful Huntsman: visual development of a Grimm tale at Art Center College of Design,…
Welcome back! I’ve completed the character turnaround for the younger brother. As well as a comparison sheet so you can see the brothers side by side to scale. I’ll share those here as well as a character snap shot similar to the image of the older brother fleeing from the killer bee I posted earlier….
Hey there gang! Buckle up! In this post you’ll see early concept work for the characters in the book as well as some finished concept items. The sketches helped me immensely with the process of arriving at the final style for the illustrations in the book. You can probably notice a struggle in this series…
This post will address a burning question which seems to be on the minds of a few interested followers. Is the 1984 in the title a reference to Orwell? The short answer is no, there is no reference to Orwell. The “however’s” are as follows: I am aware of the fact that people will probably…
Good morning! I decided to pull a little content off my journal at my deviant art page to add here. It’s relevant to the process of this book so I thought it wouldn’t hurt to include it here. enjoy…. From my deviant art journal So, while going through the process of writing and illustrating a…