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?
"The Gift" - A painting for the Month of Love challenge
As we begin the second week of February I am also starting the second week of the Month of Love challenge; a month-long art event featuring a selection of artists and a new challenge (theme) each week. This week's theme is "Lost in Translation".
The Language of Love has many dialects. Sometimes we’re fluent and other times… it’s all Greek.
Among many ideas the one that stood out the most on paper was this one, a little girl sharing a flower with a robot friend. I can't imagine what this giant metal automaton must be thinking but I imagine it isn't "I like you".