Yay! I finally received my copies of the January spread I did for Highlights Magazine! Love love LOVE how the colors came out on this one.
I hope you guys get to pick up a copy!
So for those that don’t know yet, we’re expecting our first baby!! Yipee!!! I’m nearing my final trimester, there are two books in the pipeline with very tight back to back deadlines so I’m trying my best to beat the 3rd trimester fatigue and getting as much done as I can while I CAN!
I’ve been so wrapped up with work lately it’s been challenging to find the time to indulge in any holiday fun. But this weekend I put my foot on the breaks and was finally able to let myself indulge in some seasonal goodies. It was a nice and much needed break!
All the while I was working over the weekend on sketches for them, I received this little fun card from the team at ABDO. Thanks ABDO!
We finally found time to actually buy a tree (his name is “Monty”) and make some christmas cookies for the postman and a few of our dearest and nearest…I wrapped them fast this year, or else they’d all end up in my belly..hee hee. I tell yah, there’s nothing like taking in some holiday music and the smell of cookies and pine to get you caught right up in all this season cheer!!
Happy Holidays!!
Nothing finished to show today. I took reference for something that ended up being a disaster, so I had to scrap the idea (for now) until I can do a re-shoot and start again. I've also been feeling a little under the weather (partly thanks to a weird piece of fruit, and the rest is thanks to the heat, I'm sure) and haven't been as productive as I'd like. But I do have two very different things 'on the board', and thought I'd share some work in progress shots so you can see what's happening.
First up is a little berry tart. These scanned so different, when in fact the only thing that's been worked on more is the criss-cross dough on the top one. I'm saving the filling to the end, because its going to be so much fun to do - its such a gorgeous color. This is also planned to be one of my Architectural Food pieces, showing the top (this view here), side, and cross section views. If all goes according to plan. If they don't work out I can always cut them off and just have this nice round tart all by itself! So far this is all Prismacolors, on Fabriano Artistico hot press paper.
Now, onto Jesus and the children. These are the first first first sketches, sitting with plain printer paper and a black ball point pen, with a cup of coffee, out on the porch.
Working out the girl hugging Jesus.
It seems like there would be a crippled child in the scene. And a bird.
Maybe a girl carrying her little baby brother or sister. Also thinking about hair styles. A braid? Just tied back somehow?
I love fat little baby hands, reaching.
I like the idea of one kid hugging Jesus' hand, and kind of standing on his foot. Jesus doesn't care if you stand on his foot! haha Also drew a little Down Syndrome boy, but then wasn't sure if that was too much. I want to show all kinds of kids, so that kids looking at the illustration will be able to relate.
A girl carrying her lamb. Or maybe he's a boy. Have to make sure the sandals don't look like flip flops!
This one looks like he's anointing someone. Need to work out what that arm's doing. Not sure if I want it to just be 'down', or like he's saying "hey, Jesus!".
Just walking. Getting the feet just right, especially from the back, is tricky.
A little boy and his . . . sister? Not sure how many of these kids will be in this illustration, but the one's that don't make it in will show up in another piece, somewhere, eventually.
Its fun to just imagine a scene like this, and what it was really like.
So that's what I'm up to. Hopefully next time I'll have a little more to share. Hope its cool where you are!
Giant Birds and the Trees, that’s where baby mangoes come from.
Had the pleasure of working on a quite special and personalized illustration for the past couple of weeks. So much fun working on this! Trees are one of my favorite subjects to draw even though I rarely get to draw’em. With the clients very impressive art direction we were able to take two previous roughs and basically mesh their attributes together to create our super awesome tree final. I don’t know where my head was during the coloring phase of this illo but this would’ve made for an awesome video. Ah well. Next time.
Hey all,
I keep getting an error message when I try to log on to blogger or along the top of blogs when I attempt to access them. Hopefully this is just a mozilla/Pc evil thing (or a passing blogger issue that is no more), but I'm accessing this from a Mac at a friend's house. I'm really hoping this isn't a problem with my computer as I have a lot of really great things coming this week.
Either way I'll find some way to get them up.
Have a great day!
Linsey
Blogger, evil? Say it ain't so! ;)