Above are the finals I created for my project. The outer leeve, inlay and four finished illustrations as examples of the content of the book.
I found this project challenging but definately the most enjoyable of the year. Although still very much my style, I've definately changed in how I draw to be more child friendly and I would certainly consider attempting another children's book project - especially an educational one like this, as this is the subject area that tends to be ignored by contemporary illustrators.
I finished the digital painting I started a few weeks ago tonight. It's still quite crude but not bad for one of my first attempts. Hopefully I'll improve with time. For now I still prefer fineliners and paper!
Today my Wakom Bamboo arrived in the post and I've had a play around today. I'm hoping once I get to grips with it, that it will speed up my process when editing scanned images and I hope to be able to create images digitally too. I've begun on a piece depicting a wolf holding a fox in a dreamy lalala landscape. Below are printscreens of my background , linework for my characters, base colours for my characters, shading for my characters and all layers together for my characters.
Considering it's my first time using one and I'm a technophobe - I'm not doing as bad as I thought I would be!
