I've just started reading: Children's Book Illustration: Step by Step Techniques : A Unique Guide from the Masters by Jill Bossert. It's a very interesting book, and useful for anyone interested in children's book illustration.
In the book the author follows and documents exactly how specific illustrators complete a given assignment. I'm really enjoying seeing the thought process of various illustrators. It's really giving me ideas for art experiments as well as a sense of what getting paid to illustrate would be like. Very cool.
Children's Book Illustration by Jill Bossert
Mixed Media Experiments Part 2
Another mixed media experiment. Again, using colored pencils and watercolor. It needs work, but I think I like this technique.
In other news I've been fending off picture book ideas left and right. I've had five in the last week. I'd really like to work on three of them, but I need to finish Becky first.
Mixed Media Experiments
I've been experimenting with mixed media lately. Mostly, various combinations of watercolor and ink and watercolor and colored pencil. Here's the first one, it's watercolor and colored pencil. What do you think? I kind of like it, I'll have to do some more.
Goal Evaluation
My plans have been changing a lot lately. I have a new job taking up much of my free time and it got me thinking about what I want to do and where I want to be.
The dream, is to work from home and write and illustrate full time. I'd settle for telecommuting full time as a tech writer, graphic designer or web developer and doing the writing and illustrating in my off hours. Or as a step up from that, telecommute part-time (or even work in-house part-time) and doing my writing and illustration part-time.
Right now, I don't really feel like my art is good enough. Maybe that's not true. Either way the most sure-fire way to improve it is to practice practice practice, and produce produce produce. So that's what I'm going to do. Paint and draw as much as I can as often as I can.
As for my writing, I think I just need to put my but in chair and write. To help with that, I've promised a friend that I'll buy her dinner if I don't finish the plotting for SMT by April 1st.
The plan right now is to do an hour of writing or art every weekday, I'll let you know how it goes.
Sketchbooks
I've been looking through my old sketchbooks lately and asking myself the following questions:
- What resonate with me?
- What do I like? Why?
- What do I dislike? Why?
- Are there any reoccurring themes?
- Are there any reoccurring styles?
More Sketches
Sorry no post yesterday, my Internet was down. Here are some more sketches from my sketchbook.
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