Happy November! Sorry my last two posts have been about promoting my Etsy shop and prints– hopefully I’ll get back to more meaningful posts soon. Lots of work goes into being a Mom, apparently, and I’ve also been working on a large commission in all my spare time. As promised — I have a Cyber […]Read Post ›
As I’ve mentioned in earlier posts, I’m re-drawing a few pages of the children’s book I started last year. At first, I was kind of annoyed with myself for thinking that what I had drawn wasn’t fantastic enough. It’s not like the book I’m putting together is a fantasy, or even a fictional story; What’s […]Read Post ›
After looking at countless children’s book illustrations, I started to doubt my drawings for What’s In These Woods? a little. I thought that maybe my compositions didn’t have enough contrast or interesting shapes, or maybe my drawings weren’t illustrative or stylized enough. I tried to boost the contrast and create geometry in my watercolors by […]Read Post ›
I’ve been slowly working on a children’s book about things that can be found in the forests of the Pennsylvania/ New Jersey area. It’s been a slow crawl, mostly because halfway through it I decided to start over with my illustrations, even after I spent over fifty hours on the preliminary pen sketches and first […]Read Post ›
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