Earlier this year I was approached by a gentleman looking for an Illustrator for a children’s book he had written. It’s a cute story of two young sisters and their imaginary adventures in their backyard pool. I just finished the 17 colored pencil illustrations and sent them back to the author. The whole […]
Book Illustration Project: part 4 I finished the first of the illustrations for this book project a few days ago and sent it off to the author for his critique. And I got a response. He has suggested several revisions to my drawing. So here’s where the hard part begins. I realize that he is […]
Book Illustration project: part 3. I began to color in my sketch. I’m using prismacolor pencils for the vibrant color and versatility. For the story characters’ imaginary underwater adventure, I envision a kinda loose and whimsical style. I really thought the story lent itself to collage, but time restraints do not permit that medium.
Book Illustration project continued: I am still “applying” for the illustrator job by creating and submitting a sample of my work. After coming up with an idea for one page of text and drawing it in pencil, I needed to decide on a medium to execute the idea. Based on […]
New Project!!! Children’s book illustrations. Right before Christmas a gentleman contacted me looking for an illustrator for a children’s book he had written and asked if […]
Adding perspective to your drawings will greatly improve your drawing skills and the impression of realism in your work. But perspective has rules an artist must follow in order for it to be done correctly. When an observer looks at an object, he sees it from one point of view, either […]
I went to a local artist’s exhibit last week. One piece that interested me was an assignment he gave his High School students, a 24 Hour Doodle. The exercise is meant to be a visual “free association” drawing taking 24 hours. It will also help with unblocking and opening up your creativity. […]
Perspective – “The art of drawing solid objects on a 2 dimensional surface to give the correct impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other depending on the viewer’s view point.” So that’s the definition, what does it mean? We all know how to draw a square. […]
We discussed 5 tricks that will give the illusion that your 2 dimensional image expresses space and depth. These techniques are composition (foreground, middle ground and background), size ,placement, overlapping, and perspective. And we used a beach picture as reference for each of these techniques. For this exercise find a […]
Space….. Not outer space, but the space that’s all around us. The space that differentiates between what’s close to you and what’s far away. That’s easy to do in real space. If it’s close enough, you can reach out and touch it. If it’s far away, you can’t. But there is no real […]