Welcome to my blog! I want to share what I've been up to lately. The image above, which is the wraparound cover for Scrappy Jack a book I wrote and illustrated. It's a biography of my dad, who had plenty of stories to tell and he lived to be 100 years old. The original version called "So, That's That!"was given to him on his 100th birthday many years ago. That's me and my brother, dad, and two sisters in the junkyard where I grew up. The best playground any kid could ask for!
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| Here's the first two pages from Aurora Borealice, book 2 - I'll be posting something every Friday till the book is done! Please feel free to ask any questions regarding artwork or content. I'm going to show the artwork in progress, and not necessarily in any order. The dialogue (word balloons) still needs some work, so they'll be added when I finish all the images. So for now, I'm going to add captions like I did for my first book. |
Hi Joan,
ReplyDeleteI'm interested in hearing anything you want to divulge about your working process. It looks like you do the lettering on computer, but do you scan in pencil drawings and do the finished artwork in Photoshop, or do you actually work with messy ink washes and scan in the finished artwork?
Hi, Vaughn!
ReplyDeleteThanx for the comment - and you're right, I pencil, ink, and tone the originals on good quality Strathmore watercolour paper, then scan them and add the word balloons in InDesign. My clever son Alex created a font for me, based on my handwriting! :^)