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Watercoloring Illustrations

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Drawing on my Imagination: April 2011.

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How to Make a Storyboard–Uri Shulevitz

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An outstanding picture book is a result of both spontaneity and careful planning. The tools for planning such a book are the storyboard and book dummy. The storyboard gives you a bird’s eye view of the whole book: it shows all the pages of the book, greatly reduced, on a single sheet of paper. via [...]

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A second look at picture book dummies « Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

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I think that if the dummy remains as it is, it will mislead aspiring picture book creators into thinking they have, as Staake writes, “15 spreads… (and) a single page finale,” when they are more likely to have 14 spreads, a single page beginning and a single page finale. I’d hate to see a bunch [...]

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An Illustrator Describes How She Illustrates a Book: Videos

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Learning to Sculpt Characters

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Learning to turn a character from a children’s book into a 3 dimensional sculpture.

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Character Development: Sea Captain

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These are a couple of sketches from a story I am illustrating that includes a distinguished looking sea captain and his old fishing boat. The character is still under development as I study different possible facial features and the structure of the head and body proportions.

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Hand-drawn Sketch to Digital Line Art

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This is an integral part of the illustration process when you are dealing with digital art work. Although working by hand is more expansive from a conceptual level for me, I normally go digital when it comes to creating the line art and making smaller revisions to an established sketch. I’ve been using Photoshop to [...]

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TYSON: Thinker or Stinker?

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Big fan of Tyson and I was just brainstorming ideas for a quick cartoon. After seeing the documentary Tyson my impression of Tyson as a brute was shattered, more like an idiot savant or straight up intellectual. If you can’t read the writing at the end, he’s reading Nietsche and thinking “Stupendifying!” DISCLAIMER: This is [...]

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Illustrator or Artist?

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What is the difference between an Illustrator and an Artist? This is a sensitive subject for a lot of illustrator because implicit in the differentiation is the assumption that an illustrator is not an artist (which, in itself, is a pretty broad definition). What most people think of when they think of an artist is [...]

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