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By: Christian Bocquee,
on 3/1/2011
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Only one day to go, here's a preview of my Illustration Friday entry for this week.
By: Christian Bocquee,
on 2/12/2011
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Still working out colours and technique, so here's another simple composition. The colours are probably getting close to what I want, but the technique I'm not so sure yet. I don't want it overly fussy looking, but am definitely still struggling to control the medium. More to follow.
By: Christian Bocquee,
on 2/9/2011
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By: Christopher Denise,
on 12/10/2010
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By: Christian Bocquee,
on 3/1/2011
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By: Christian Bocquee,
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By: Christian Bocquee,
on 2/9/2011
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Some good news to report, I have teamed up with published (and award winning) author Jennifer Poulter who has taken my initial concept art and done a truly brilliant job of working them into a story for picture book form. Above you can see some new concept art created since receiving the finished first draft of the manuscript. At this stage I'm still trying to establish the look, so nothing here is final. If you missed the earlier concept art I posted here/here & here, it was all digitally painted. I'd like to reinterpret the world created thus far in watercolour if I can manage to get to grips with this medium. I still have a ways to go on this front.
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By: Christopher Denise,
on 12/10/2010
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Three weeks ago I was lucky enough to find myself at the CTN Expo taking in the forum discussions, catching up with friends, and toting my wares around to the studios. I was not able to show the recent film work because the movies have not yet been made or released but I had enough new stuff that it was time to freshen up my book. Thus began the task of designing a new portfolio. There are plenty of places on the web with great advice about putting together your book, most notably Escape from Illustration Island, and most are well worth the time it takes to read them even for someone that has been showing work for more than twenty years. Much of the advice is standard so I will not go into the details but will share a few observations that I had in this most recent go-round.
First off it was far more difficult than I remembered so your first stop should be to check your calendar. The day that you read about a conference like CTN or Siggraph that you may want to attend, you need to build time into your production schedule. Treat it like a job because your next one may depend upon it. Build in time for going through your images, designing the thing, editing, feedback, more editing, and finally printing and shipping. I used Blurb and was very happy once again with the results though I would recommend spending the extra money for the paper upgrade.
OK, so you have picked some recent images of work that you like. These are pieces that you enjoyed making and show the type work that you would like to get more of. I put together a contact sheet like this:
The portfolio that preceded this version, and there have been many, looked wonderful but as a friend of mine pointed out it was a bit of an embarrassment of riches. It was well received but clocked in at a hefty 34 pages. Even people that loved my work were stuffed by page 20.
I was a prime candidate for a radical intervention on Portfolios Biggest Losers. If you have a copy, I am sure that it looks very nice on your coffee table but my goal this time around was to make something a bit more user friendly. How? Simple. Edit until it hurts. I am good at critiquing, in fact I used to get paid to crit and edit while teaching at RISD but when it comes to your own book, we all need a fresh eye. So I sent it off to my friend Buck Lewis. I received something like this back.
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By: John,
on 12/7/2010
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Jason Kim (with whom I work at Avalanche Software), posted some before and after concept paint-overs of scenes from Epic Mickey.
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Jason Kim (with whom I work at Avalanche... as of 1/1/1900
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By: Christian Bocquee,
on 12/6/2010
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By: Christian Bocquee,
on 11/25/2010
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I'm thinking that as I explore this character's world a loose narrative will unfold. Eventually, I envisage possibly collating the series into a picture book without words - a purely visual story. One example of this picture only format is Gon, the Japanese manga about a dinosaur.
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By: John,
on 11/7/2010
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Caped Kimkao
I love this Tumblr of creature concept art: Creature Journal. I had to do some Internet digging to discover the artist’s name: Mark A. Facey.
Artists: put your names on your websites. Or do you not want to be contacted for work?
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By: Christopher Denise,
on 9/17/2010
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Anika Denise, the author of Bella & Stella Come Home, and my wife, has also posted a more detailed account of Bella's early stages on her blog, http://anikadenise.blogspot.com/,
Check it out!
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By: Silver Knight,
on 6/14/2010
Blog: Art of Faerywinkle (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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By: Silver Knight,
on 3/23/2010
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“The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.”
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By: Christopher Denise,
on 3/11/2010
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By: John,
on 2/23/2010
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Great video game concept art and digital sketches from Florent Sacré.
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By: John,
on 2/21/2010
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Some atmospheric gouaches and tastes of cinema concept art from art director, Samuel Michlap.
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By: Christopher Denise,
on 2/9/2010
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Sketch and finish from The Great Redwall Feast.
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By: John,
on 12/3/2009
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Nuthin’ But Mech promises robots, and robots is what it delivers. The group blog features mech, robots, and automatica drawn by almost two dozen different artists, including Jake Parker, who work is shown here.
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By: John,
on 11/23/2009
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Alberto Mielgo is a Spanish illustrator living in London. He is a masterful painter who has an astonishing ability to create a kind of reductive literal realism that appears almost photographic. Here’s a small section…
… of a much larger illustration Mielgo created for an advertising client. On his blog he explains how he did six comprehensive roughs before this version of the image was settled on… and then, after execution, the project died!
Mielgo hints at his work on many major film and video game productions… but unfortunately, because of corporate secrecy, he is often unable to share much of that work with us. He had to take down an example of his contribution to Beatles Rockband, but was allowed to show a sketch from a Dorian Grey film project.
Alberto has also done some comics projects. This is a page from a story he drew for Image’s Popgun #3.
Illustration, concept art, comics… *whew!* … and somehow Mielgo finds the time to do fine art gallery painting as well!
Alberto Mielgo’s website.
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By: John,
on 11/16/2009
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Chris Appelhans has posted some lovely concept art for Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. So great!
And if you missed it, check out my interview with Fantastic Mr. Fox storyboard artist Christian De Vita.
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By: John,
on 10/22/2009
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One of the most impressive illustrators working in film production today is Rodolfo Damaggio.
Damaggio worked as a comic book artist for DC in the 1990’s before moving on to do concept art and storyboards for such summer blockbusters as MI3, Lemony Snicket’s SoUE, Hidalgo, Indiana Jones 4, and Fantastic Four “Rise of the Silver Surfer”, among many others. Pouring through Damaggio’s website will leave you feeling a little overwhelmed by his stunning sense of cinematic perspective – not to mention his rock-solid drawing and painting skills. This guy is good.
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By: Silver Knight,
on 6/4/2009
Blog: Art of Faerywinkle (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Drakkun
6" x 8" Watercolor on Bockingford paper.
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By: Christopher Denise,
on 5/15/2009
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I had the pleasure of being interviewd by Jules at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast. If you are not familiar with her blog you should be. Jules has archived interviews with some of the most amazing authors and illustrators working in the children's book industry. How about knowing more about Mo Willems, Jane Yolen, Ed Young, Harry Bliss, Giselle Potter, or Dave McKlean?
The interviews are just long enough that you get a real sense of the artists but not so long that you feel like you are reading every entry on their face book page. The insights shared through a very thoughtful q/a are enlightening and often hilarious.
The posts are choc full of nicely sized images in a very clean, well organized format. So if you want to know more about the people that created the books that you love, or discover a new favorite, a visit to her blog is time well spent. http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/
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By: John,
on 5/12/2009
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Artist Jay Epperson has been posting lots of concept art that he created and art directed for the Nintendo DS game Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure. Check out his blog for background paintings, character designs, sketches, pixel art, and more.
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By: John,
on 5/5/2009
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Jake Parker has just finished posting the last installment of a series of posts featuring concept art he created for Blue Sky’s adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hears a Who. Here’s the roundup:
- Props and transportation
- Jungle of Nool
- The speck
- A map of Whoville
- Whoville concepts I
- Whoville concepts II
- Whoville concepts III
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By: Eric Orchard,
on 3/9/2009
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How the heck did I miss this guy's work? Jon Klassen is amazing, I first saw his work a couple of weeks ago and I feel like I've been run over by an art steam train.Beautiful,lyrical art balancing design,narrative and expressiveness. I really love this guy's work. I'm so glad he's getting attention for his Coraline design work.
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By: Todd Harris,
on 9/3/2008
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Fantastic post!!
Funny, I said the exact same thing when I saw what you got back. Ouch!
But I understand.. all he did you was a huge favor. It's not easy to let go of illustrations. I know I have a hard time at that and need to learn to see them more objectively if that is in any way possible.
Your idea of asking a person you trust for feedback is definitely a good one. :o)
Christopher,
Thank you so much for posting this. It really helps to see an actual working portfolio by someone you respect.
Little quibbler...I think you need a slight edit on the Work Experience page. Under Treanor Brothers, shouldn't the word be "matte" rather than "matt"?
Otherwise, absolutely beautiful!
These are fantastic stuff, Chris. But I know what you mean about cutting back. You gotta have complete trust on the person you ask...like a doctor doing surgery :) But I always love looking at your artworks. Keep it coming!