merry merry

Some birds fly south

Double page spread, full size too I might add :)

miaw

I'm REALLY REALLY...

....struggling to get my final's up to standard with my roughs....do you think it might be worth me making nice smaller pieces and scanning them in at a larger dpi? :(

some tests with the dreaded bear.

I still think I might hate him.

It's been one of those days...

Where everything I try and draw looks damn awful, anyway, here's a rough idea for a bear that's a little tinsy bit scary, any thoughts? :/

I think I hate him, but I'll sleep on it and look again in the morning....

Watercolour birds

Just testing watercolour still, not filling as much with the lines. Think these blue ones look much better than the brown birds in my sketchbook

ROUGH with text again

I think I love this type face...

I'm working on the final piece of this today, this is the rough for it :)

Do they curl up by the fire?

Text testing....

ipad books.

Not a reason to buy an ipad buuuut, looks quite nice :)

experimentingg

had a go at using waterproof ink fineliner in 0.1 and 0.8 and then using watercolour to fill in, might try screenprint the black and do watercolour on top.. also going to try acrylic with acetate on top for the details any other ideass would be appreciatedd :)

question

chiu ive got the book together and penciled out in the correct size, with penciled text, but ive only got the first few pages inked, do we have till next week to complete them fully?
thanks

Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2010 By THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

http://www.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2010/best-illustrated-childrens-books-2010/list.html

from two weeks back

Introducing The Picture Book genre

Found stories – Copyright/Authorship

Fractured Stories

http://www.anholt.co.uk/bookshop/seriously-silly

Self-written stories

Concept books

http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/concept-picture-books

Introducing simple narrative structures and manuscripts

Books for Young Readers Submissions Guidelines

http://www.walkerbooks.com/info/index.php?wb_section=about&wb_page=submissions

Peggy Tibbetts on what makes a good story

http://www.writing-world.com/children/sparkle.shtml

The Slush Pile

http://somethingsbegun.com/slush.shtml

Task 01 Find, Fracture & Write your own 24 page stories

Task 01x Make some rough thumbnail designs & character sketches for the puffin comp

Task 02 (research) Having chosen the narrative genre that you want to work in, find similar picture book examples and break down the story into a simple narrative structure

+ Reverse-engineer them into just written scripts!

RCC rough ideas.....

To begin with I felt very lost

Memories of the desert entwined with the winter

And created a block in my mind.

But slowly...

Things began to make a little more sence

And after finding my feet again

I saw the end was in sight

Just a little red book in my blue hands.

The formatting on this post has gone to pot and I can't seem to sort it, but I think it still gets the idea across.

I have tried to make this more about experimentation and design and my journey of trying to work past a block....but is this enough for an RCC?

There are 3 double page spreads missing which I'm working on, and obviously the text isn't on yet, but I just wanted to play around with much more collage and work on the backgrounds first.

The 4th image down will have collaged clocks on it which are not there yet, and the 2nd and 3rd needs much more work but these are just preliminary ideas and I'm not even sure if the story is appropriate!?

Any feedback would be great. :)

Lou