YOU WILL BE MY FRIEND!
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Behind the Scenes of You Will Be My Friend!
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I used my computer to make sketches, play with text, and add borders to each page during the early development of You Will Be My Friend. Then I printed out all the pages and put them up on my wall, so I could see how they worked together as a group. I ... More
Behind the Scenes of You Will Be My Friend!
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I used my computer to make sketches, play with text, and add borders to each page during the early development of You Will Be My Friend. Then I printed out all the pages and put them up on my wall, so I could see how they worked together as a group. I marked up the printouts with all kinds of notes to myself, and would later go back to my computer to make those changes. | After developing the story and pictures, I eventually settled on final sketches and words for every page. Using a light box, I traced the final sketches onto paper with a mechanical pencil. | I used a standard paper towel as a chamois, and rubbed the graphite to get texture and various shades of gray. | Using that paper towel chamois, mechanical pencils and erasers, I eventually ended up with final drawings. |
In many cases, I would draw the different elements of an illustration separately, and combine them later with my computer. Here are a few drawings that ended up on the book cover, along with additional drawings not seen in this photo. | I also used mechanical pencils and erasers to do the hand-lettering for all of the dialogue in the story. | I cut construction paper to create word balloons, boxes for the narration text, and the background papers that would eventually be placed behind the drawings in the final illustrations. | I scanned all of the drawings, cut paper, hand lettering, and photos of wood grains into my computer. Then I adjusted the positions of the various elements of the illustrations, tinted the drawings to a sepia tone, and added transparent color to create the final art. Here you can see what the drawing looked like before and after I added the color. |
Photo credit: Gwen Schroeder
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