The Artist Author Notes
Behind the Scenes of an Artist, Author, Small Business & Traveler
Bringing an Illustrated Novel to Life - A Collaboration with Wacom
Are you a creative? What are the essential tools that you use for your creative practice? Would you consider them to be strange or out of the box? What tools serve multiple functions in your process?
I’m really excited to be partnering with Wacom to bring you a special treat — An article all about creating illustrated novels and more specifically how I use a tablet for each stage of the process!
Ora Book Illustration: The Process So Far
To start, here is the reference that I created in VR using Gravity Sketch to quickly lay in some rough rock shapes and build up the large rock that Ora is made up of. I used the map that I had already created of the city (above) as a rough template for scale and worked on top of it.
Determining Book Production Methods
How do you effectively produce 104 images that remain consistent throughout in color, value and style and produce them quickly yet at a high quality?