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1. It's here!!

Dear Friends,


It's here!!! Another Phyllis Harris coloring book is available today at this link.  It is available on Amazon, and even internationally! Yay! Finally one that folks overseas can enjoy, too! Now including Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.it, and Amazon.es.
US Amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Brandy-Emma-Coloring-Story/dp/1517370248/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1443209327&sr=1-1&keywords=the+adventures+of+brandy+and+emma

UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Adventures-Brandy-Emma-Coloring-Story/dp/1517370248/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1443209112&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Adventures+of+Brandy+and+Emma 


Since I have been illustrating children's books since 1999 and I am the illustrator of over 35 children's books, I thought it was high time I created and published a children's book myself! I am SO excited!

Introducing my 2 in 1 coloring/story book. And my studio companion Cassie give her hardy approval!



It makes a wonderful keepsake!   Adults can enjoy the act of coloring AND enjoy reading with their little ones after the book is complete. This 32 page coloring book/story book featuring a lovable little girl, Emma and her golden retriever friend, Brandy. It includes the 14 timeless one-sided images created on nostalgic cream colored paper.



Here is a little back story on Brandy and Emma...
 
I have lots of art featuring golden retrievers and a small blonde headed girls? Ever wonder why? Many of you on this list are already familiar with my Brandy and Emma characters because of the stamping/crafting community. But for those of you who don't know who Brandy and Emma are, let me explain.

Here is the original Brandy, the golden retriever and Emma.(aka Em or Emily, our daughter, the photo taken many years ago, as she is now a mama herself.)




Brandy was our very first beloved golden retriever who has been gone from our lives for many years now but never gone from our hearts. She was the dearest creature and I often thought she was an angel sent by God to our family.


There are still lots of my first coloring book, the heART of childhood,  going out to their new homes so be sure to get your copy soon as I am down to three last boxes and I would be so honored if you shared this link to my coloring book with your friends and family who might enjoy this new fun craze of adult coloring. It is so relaxing after a stressful day. Oh, and be sure to use the FREE U.S. SHIPPING coupon code USShipFree at checkout!




As always, thank you for being a part of our wonderful community. I am so grateful for each and every one of you!

Phyllis


Gifts that give back
Phyllis Harris Designs & You – Giving the gift of love and healing
Every purchase of a heart-warming Phyllis Harris Designs illustration print donates 5 percent of every illustration print sold from our website to Children's Mercy Hospital.  

Be sure and follow my social media networks to keep up with all that is going on. Here are the links:
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2. Digital Brushes

I've been looking around for better brushes to use in Photoshop... here are some that I found through recommendations:
Chris Wahl has some wonderful texture brushes.
Stumpy Pencil is an old favourite.
Mister Bird makes some nifty brushes (for money) (I tried the inking set so far, it's not bad at all).
I might add some here as I find them.

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3. Crayons

Watching the other illustrators at the South Ken festival draw, I noticed how enjoyable crayons are... Kitty Crowther and Marc Boutavant both used them. It was especially charming to see Marc's normally flawlessly rendered creatures drawn in scribbly crayon.
So today I tried drawing my rats in crayon, tos ee if that's the look I'd like for my new book.
I'm quite pleased actually, that's the first drawings I really enjoyed for this project!
The mouth placement is still weird. I'll work it out.

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4. Tippytoe

I coloured in some of yesterday's rats. Here's the one I showed you earlier.
I don't often do the cartoony-eyes and bendy-limbs style, but this books seems to want it.
I'm not sure about the shading/highlighting yet, might want to be more subtle, I want the rats to looka bit grubby though. Maybe I'll texture them all over.
I'm drawing with my medium sized Namiki Falcon pen, it's rather a joy...

AHA! Yes, this is better.

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5. Surrender Dorothy!

Now in Technicolor!

I'm just about done on the Wizard of Oz, Judge Dredd and Johnny Alpha cross-over commission.


There's still a decision to be made over the final dialogue though...

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6. DONE!


And listening to Klaus Nomi on a loop I finished colouring the epilogue of my graphic novel.

Now it's just tidying up, really.

DONE. DONE. DONE!!!!

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7. Crowd, Coloured

Right. This is more or less finished and I need to get out of this room before I melt in his heatwave... I'll sit downstairs with the windows open and smell the tomato plants, drink iced lemonade and draw plans and blueprints for a dream-vehicle (that's the last page still missing in this book, dream vehicle plans).

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8. Deeply Meaningful Sequence

Here's something for you to contemplate while I finish colouring this comic.

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9. orange beast

This chapter has nice animals in it. I decided to colour them based on Orang-Utans.

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10. Some Bottles...

Experimenting with digtal colouring. Am beginning to understand masks and channels.
These didn't come out quite as serious as intended.

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11. Ticking along...

I got a new bed yesterday and it's so comfortable that I am finding it hard to stay out of it today... I spent a month's rent on it, so it's no surprise.
Hence I'm not drawing, just colouring some easy bits of the comic.
Finished this one!
Good night.

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12. Finished! For now.

HA HAAA! And I hit my deadline with the sound of dinosaurs smashing through the stratosphere. Or, more accurately, the Super-Sargasso Sea.


No more colouring, this goes off to the Bologna book fair.
WOOT!
By the way, I got to make use of the original cloud drawing I did years ago on a plane while planning this comic. That's what that whize fuzzy stuff is. Yay.

Music of the moment: Birdhouse in your soul by They Might Be Giants

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13. Falling Dinosaur

I coloured some more pages today. It's looking okay. Here's a falling dinosaur for you. He's only very tiny on the page he's on, and he ends up being eaten by a giant metal pterodactyl the next moment, so I felt he deserved a moment in the limelight.

Music of the Moment:  Lost and Found by Taken by Trees

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14. Taking Vern and Lettuce out for lunch

I had some Very Serious Challenging Drawing to do today, so I went and printed out Sarah McIntyre's excellent Vern and Lettuce colour-your-own paper tractor from the Fleece Station website and made it VERY STRIPEY.


Then I took it to my favourite cafe for lunch.


Now go and make your own tractor.

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15. Webcomics Tutorial – 10 Lessons For Better Colouring

Webcomics Tutorial – 10 Lessons For Better Colouring:

Princess Planet cartoonist Brian McLachlan offers up a meaty tutorial on how to best tackle the colouring of your comic, webcomic or otherwise.

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16. My Grimm Brother

One of my cohorts on Fractal Friction, (the not so grimm) Matte Soffe has done me the honour of inking up some of my recent sketches, please read his full blog posting here.


One of the pieces was my recent Dredd sketch, which he also did some beautiful colouring on... and as if that weren't enough he's been universally lovely about promoting it all over the web too... Thanks Matt, you're a gent, a talented one too.

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17. FrogRocket and Chris Chuckry

I enjoyed this slickly-produced profile of Winnipeg’s Chris Chuckry, the founder of the comic book colouring firm FrogRocket.


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