Finally, 2 highlights from the Childrens book I've been laboring over during the summer and early fall. It feels relieving to know that my name will be printed on the cover of a book, even if it is for someone else's self published story. The project paid 800 dollars for 7 full color Illustrations displaying the closest thing to any type of "style" I've produced other than my natural science work. As shown above, the story is titled "The Witches that Saved the Dogs", a jam-packed story about 2 girls named Hortense and Esmerelda who have their puppies(Waggy-Tail, and Princess) kidnapped by an evil witch. Throughout the story, Hortense and Esmerelda must discover their own magical powers in order to save their beloved puppies.
One of the issues I had after reading over the text was that there were plenty more scenes that could have been executed, but would have cost the authors more than the 800 dollars they had available for me.
Another issue was the formatting I was confined to for each painting. No landscape at all, only portrait format and 8.5' x 11' inches. Because of these limitations , most compositional elements rely on warped views and tend to follow the same sizing in terms of hierarchy in content and where I put the most detail. These aspects give a majority of the pages a sense of consistency, but also a slight hint of forced feeling. The remainder of the successful ones are coming!
Thought I would document some more process on my experiments before I start adding the highlights and messing with the background. The next round may call for a palette knife.
Finally, 2 highlights from the Childrens book I've been laboring over during the summer and early fall. It feels relieving to know that my name will be printed on the cover of a book, even if it is for someone else's self published story. The project paid 800 dollars for 7 full color Illustrations displaying the closest thing to any type of "style" I've produced other than my natural science work. As shown above, the story is titled "The Witches that Saved the Dogs", a jam-packed story about 2 girls named Hortense and Esmerelda who have their puppies(Waggy-Tail, and Princess) kidnapped by an evil witch. Throughout the story, Hortense and Esmerelda must discover their own magical powers in order to save their beloved puppies.
One my most favorite pencil drawings, loved the mystery of bigfoot since I was about 10 and would always find myself wondering through the Vermont woods to find it. The pose should be familiar to most with a small alteration from the movie where the figure is slightly more hunched over and twisting around in motion. I chose to make it almost about to duck back into the brush and add grittier texture to its fur. Bigfoot's eyes are its best aspect with the face left in near shadow.
Not as powerful of a piece as any of my renderrings, but still fun to take on nonetheless. Based on an editorial about milk product company's corrupting traditional farmers.
Decided to repost this seeing that at the end of the week i'll have all the rest of the renderrings photographed and put up on here(finally). Many projects in progress as the year churns down and I have to slam 2025$ for an apartment with some friends in downtown Boston.
Here are a couple more editorials from last Fall and summer. The Spider was derived from an article about the various ways to keep spiders as Pets for Boys Magazine and I thought the concept was fairly universal and straight forward for its general audiance. It was always a childhood dream of mine to keep one as a pet but never got the chance so this was the turnout. Who doesn't love pirates??? I like that I used a more nuetral color pallete for this pianting as it maintains a more comicbook type appearance.
