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By: Kim Sponaugle,
on 9/22/2012
Blog: Picture Book Illustration by Kim Sponaugle (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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By: Kim Sponaugle,
on 4/29/2012
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By: Kim Sponaugle,
on 3/30/2012
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By: Tim Bowers,
on 2/3/2012
Blog: Tim Bowers Art Blog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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By: Frances Tyrrell,
on 10/30/2011
Blog: Fairy Lanterns (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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By: Kim Sponaugle,
on 9/22/2012
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By: Kim Sponaugle,
on 4/29/2012
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| Piggie Pie: Jr. detective- Hates taking a bath, his spots and tea time at 3 |
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| Hermoise Hen: Master detective - loves, luxury, solving barnyard mysteries and tea time at 3. |
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| Penny Pac farm.... |
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By: Kim Sponaugle,
on 3/30/2012
Blog: Picture Book Illustration by Kim Sponaugle (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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By: Tim Bowers,
on 2/3/2012
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My newest book is out this month and it’s a beauty! The production quality is top notch… a really thick cover, slightly embossed title on the dust jacket and a music cd, embedded on the inside of the back cover…nice!
Dinosaur Pet by Neil Sedaka and Marc Sedaka, published by Imagine! (an imprint of Charlesbridge) just hit the shelves and the song is already a tune that I can’t get out of my head. What a fun project and Neil Sedaka is such a gifted singer/ songwriter… not to mention his talented son, Marc, who also has a very impressive writing resume’. What a great team!
The artwork was created with acrylic paint on a textured surface. I gessoed the board before I painted the images. Then, after laying in the areas of color, I painted (dry brush technique) over the image and gesso brushstrokes to get the texture that you see in the final art.
A few art notes: Some interesting props have been recognized in the art. The red piano, seen in the book is very similar to one that was featured on the cover of Neil Sedaka's 1977 album, A Song. The black and white zebra chair (above) is extremely similar to the one that is on his web site banner. Coincidence?… maybe, but it makes you wonder, doesn’t it?
I was told that Mr. Sedaka liked intense color so I pumped up the chroma. This is the most saturated color book that I’ve done, thus far.
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By: Frances Tyrrell,
on 10/30/2011
Blog: Fairy Lanterns (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Our beautiful WoodlandNutcracker book, which was chosen as The Children's Picture Book of the year in 1999 by the Canadian Book Review Annual, was orphaned earlier this year when the publisher went out of business. We are fortunate to have obtained the remaining books from the publisher's warehouse, boxes of mint-new copies full of Christmas magic and adventure.
As with the earlier Woodland Christmas, the story was inspired by many camping trips and cottage visits in Canada's boreal forest, "far away from highways and city lights", where one can travel for days and not meet another human being or even a camera-shy bear. In a story that parallels the Nutcracker ballet, Clara is given a wonderful carved Nutcracker Bear who transforms into the dashing Nutcracker Prince. After settling a midnight battle with the field mice with a Christmas Eve truce, giving the hungry mice food for their families, Clara and Nutcracker fly away to the Ice Palace of the Great Bear, Ursa Major.
At the Great Bear's palace an international cast of bears performs for Clara - juggling pandas and trapeze artist koalas and more, plus some of her dearest woodland friends. I have made two posters from the illustrations, grizzly bear Mother Ginger with her junior hockey team,
and the polar bear Yuk Tuk dancing to the strains of the Russian Dance, pictured below. For the purposes of the poster I have placed a copy of the book in her gracefully extended paw!
By: Mike Cressy,
on 10/24/2011
Blog: Sugar Frosted Goodness (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Finally got around to doing a new painting... more coming soon.
MC
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By: Mike Cressy,
on 5/5/2011
Blog: Sugar Frosted Goodness (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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... from my Super Alphabet series... soon to be a kids alphabet book.
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By: Giselle,
on 3/26/2007
Blog: Picture Bookies Showcase (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Cover illustration for book dummy
Media: Gouache
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By: Aaron Pocock,
on 8/4/2008
Blog: sketchworld (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Here's my latest step-by-step demonstration...
I've been asked by one of my publishers for some animal samples. Although I have a huge amount of wildlife drawings and paintings, I don't really have all that many animal illustrations, so I set about doing a few. (see the kookaburra image from a previous post...)
This one was an absolute joy to paint. I had great reference for starters... my Mother-in-law took the photos on a recent trip to the UK, it's very handy having relatives who take great photos and it's always worthwhile to keep a lot of files for reference, here's proof.
I call this image 'The Sparrows of Redgate Cottage".
STEP ONE Here's the reference I used for the image. Note, I turned the cottage around, just in case the owners ever saw it, I'm not sure if the M.I.L. got permission. I'll carry on as if she didn't.
STEP TWO Here's the composited image with some painting done for the sky, the posts in the foreground and the road. Photoshop is fantastic for this purpose. It's a lot easier to put an image together this way.
STEP THREE Here I work out the the sketch to paint over. I keep it very basic as the photos have a whole heap of information. If I started this image from scratch, with no reference, I'd have to add a lot of info at this stage.
STEP FOUR I've added a colour overlay in Painter, I'm starting out using the 'chalk' option.
STEP FIVE See the chalky look to the colour?I use the chalk option for ease of getting the colours down quickly.
STEP SIX Some details added and keeping a watchful eye on the tones at the same time.
STEP SEVEN More detail. I start work from the back and gradually move forward.
STEP EIGHT I'm looking right through the image now and thinking about the relatiuonship between the background and the forefront. I begin adding a few highlights for clues and a little bit of work on the sparrow.
STEP NINE More tonal work to pull the whole thing together.
STEP TEN Tweaking some of the colours... the road, the path etc.
STEP ELEVEN Working right through the image, adding detail to the bird too at this point. This is the fun part for me, the finer detailing.
STEP TWELVE Lots more work on the foreground. Working out the relationship with the sparrow and the background, I want it to stand out so I add some gentle highlights, trying hard to avod the 'cut-out' look. I always bear try to bear this in mind.
STEP THIRTEEN Toning the whole thing and adding more detail, the image is really starting to come together at this point.
STEP FOURTEEN More of the same. The red of the gate really provides a nice break between the front and the back of the image and also, gives me a title.
STEP FIFTEEN The finished image. I'm pretty happy at this point, but no doubt, as I do, I'll go back and touch it up in the future. I forgot to mention that I painted this as a cover image, so I left a fair amount of space at the top for type. There's nothing worse than dodgy typestting over a lovely image. Another thing I try to bear in mind at all times.
By: Aaron Pocock,
on 8/8/2008
Blog: sketchworld (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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This image took me nearly three days to 'paint'. some of it was hard work, some of it was an absolute joy. I'm pretty happy with the result. It was rendered in my usual photoshop and Painter.
By: Aaron Pocock,
on 8/11/2008
Blog: sketchworld (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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I've recently had a solo exhibition at the Region's gallery. It was fun, humbling, honest and the opening night was downright scary. But all in all it was a wonderful experience. I enetered 22 images in all, here are a few of them. I entered pieces using most of the tricks up my sleeve in various mediums including: acrylics, oils, graphite, watercolour and gouache. the exhibition was called 'The Eternal Student', the reason for the title was that I feel I'm forever learning. Thankfully I've been asked to come back for another exhibition, I'd like to focus on just one theme next time. Watch this space......
By: Aaron Pocock,
on 8/11/2008
Blog: sketchworld (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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I've just come back from a long weekend with my wife and son and hadn't drawn all weekend. This is what came out of me upon my return.As usual, it was painted with Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop.
By: Aaron Pocock,
on 8/13/2008
Blog: sketchworld (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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here's todays image. I've got a bit of a thing happening with 'flight' at the moment.
For the first time since I've started using them, I'm very comfortable with Photoshop and Painter. I've developed half an idea of a working procedure that really seems to suit me, it's rather like the way I used to work when I used traditional media.
By: Aaron Pocock,
on 8/13/2008
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I've been using Corel Painter for a couple of years now. I'm currently using PainterX, there are a few more thingies on it than it's predecessor. I've been doodling away at a project that's in the back of my mind in muy spare time and today, I wanted to have a play with Painter's inking pen functions. This is the before and after; from the drawing to the finished line art, for me, for digital media, it comes pretty close to the real thing.
By: Aaron Pocock,
on 8/24/2008
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I've been a busy boy lately, haven't had much time for sketching and the like, but I did manage to paint up a rough sample or two for a publisher I'm in touch with..... here's one of those images....
By: Aaron Pocock,
on 8/26/2008
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This illustration is for the bottom half of the page that Santa (see previous post) sits on. As usual it was painted in Corel Painter after having drawn and inked it. I'm enjoying this book immensely, children's books are so much fun! I work in quite a few different styles, but i have to say that this kind of work seems to come out of me a lot easier than some of the other types of things I do.
By: rodhunt,
on 8/10/2010
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At last, here it is, the first look at Where's Stig? The World Tour, the sequel to my quarter of a million copy bestseller Where's Stig? for the BBC TV show Top Gear. It's been 6 months solid work, but you don't have too long to wait to see the full results as it's in the shops on September 30th 2010, & available to pre-order on Amazon now!
Where's Stig? The World Tour illustrated by Rod Hunt - Every now and then, Top Gear’s tame racing driver needs a change of scene, and after a power-lap-packed year that’s seen our fearless man in white elevated to bone fide celebrity status, Stig’s decided he needs to escape the flashing bulbs of the paparazzi and do something for himself. It’s time to hit the tarmac with an Esperanto language CD and a pet passport for Where's Stig? The World Tour.
Stig’s journey will span the continents, from the snow-capped mountains of the north, to the tropical jungles of the equator and dusty deserts of the south, and we’ll be watching him every step of the way. Stig will be hidden within every brilliantly drawn scene, along with Clarkson, Hammond and Captain Slow, and there’ll be plenty of other Top Gear gags to keep readers going back for more.
Where’s Stig? took readers by storm last year, and Where’s Stig? The World Tour will have Top Gear fans revving their super-charged engines to come along with him on the ride of a lifetime.
Stig’s journey will span the continents, from the snow-capped mountains of the north, to the tropical jungles of the equator and dusty deserts of the south, and we’ll be watching him every step of the way. Stig will be hidden within every brilliantly drawn scene, along with Clarkson, Hammond and Captain Slow, and there’ll be plenty of other Top Gear gags to keep readers going back for more.
Where’s Stig? took readers by storm last year, and Where’s Stig? The World Tour will have Top Gear fans revving their super-charged engines to come along with him on the ride of a lifetime.
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It's amazing:)Love it:)I want a dino pet too:)