Learning About Concept Drawing

Hello friends. As I am on a forced hiatus due to work commitments I felt the need to include a quick post here on some of the learning I’ve been doing related to style and character concepts. In the book, The Skillful Huntsman: visual development of a Grimm tale at Art Center College of Design, […]

Characters – Design and Familiarity

Welcome back! I’ve completed the character turnaround for the younger brother. As well as a comparison sheet so you can see the brothers side by side to scale. I’ll share those here as well as a character snap shot similar to the image of the older brother fleeing from the killer bee I posted earlier. […]

A Few Details On Panels

I’ve been reading Illustrating Children’s Books: Creating Pictures for Publication by Martin Salisbury (Course director for the first school in the UK to offer an MA in Children’s Book Illustration). Being new to the world of Children’s Book Illustrations is great! I’ve discovered many new illustrators and have enjoyed learning about the history of the […]

Composing Backgrounds

My, how time flies. It’s been 19 days since my most recent post. My apologies, life has been very busy, but that’s not why you are all here so I will spare you all the wonderful details. This post will take you through a very quick breakdown of some of the processes I’ve gone through […]

Characters – First Takes

Hey there gang! Buckle up! In this post you’ll see early concept work for the characters in the book as well as some finished concept items. The sketches helped me immensely with the process of arriving at the final style for the illustrations in the book. You can probably notice a struggle in this series […]

1984? Is that Orwellian?

This post will address a burning question which seems to be on the minds of a few interested followers. Is the 1984 in the title a reference to Orwell? The short answer is no, there is no reference to Orwell. The “however’s” are as follows: I am aware of the fact that people will probably […]

Thoughts on Style

Good morning! I decided to pull a little content off my journal at my deviant art page to add here. It’s relevant to the process of this book so I thought it wouldn’t hurt to include it here. enjoy…. From my deviant art journal So, while going through the process of writing and illustrating a […]

Getting Started

Welcome aboard! Here you will find a chronicle of my experiences while learning how to create and complete a children’s book by doing just that. This site will include posts describing my frustrations (hopefully many so I grow sufficiently) and my triumphs as I endeavour to create the story Our 1984 – Shelter. This story […]