This is a nice interview with the very lovely Lynne Chapman. They discuss mainly how she got started illustrating children's books. I always love to know this, don't you? There's a different story behind every artist. :o)
One of the blogs I always enjoy visiting belongs to the talented Lynne Chapman. Her blog is filled with tons of valuable information. Like
this post, for example, where she explains a little about how she designs her spreads.
Go have a look at her
blog and
website which is filled with super cute art and many videos, really fun stuff!
I found a wonderful set of videos done by illustrator
Lynne Chapman on how to do a picture book. She goes through the process of creating a book from start to finish, using her newest book,
Bears on the Stairs, as an example. Informative and fun and entertaining, plus she has that neat British accent!
I'm not allowed to embed the actual video here, but you can click the links which will take you to her blog posts where you can watch them legally, and also look around at everything else she has going on (I love her sketches of people on the train!)
Her blog.Blog post with first video.
Thanks for letting me share Lynne!
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Also, I finished the orange Tootsie Pop.
Can't decide whether to do more candy next, or something more nutritious. Oh, I'll be doing lots more candy, yes, but I also have to get some 'real food' done, so may shift gears for a few days.
The weather is finally turning cool enough to really feel like Fall, so I'm happy. My knitting needles and yarn are beckoning so I'm going to try to work in a bit of knit and purling here and there. I like that it gets dark earlier - I get more productive in the dark evenings.
There's a new yarn - a Malabrigo Rios - which is 100% Merino wool, but also
washable. If you know about these things, you know that wool usually 'felts' in the wash. So washable wool is a pretty cool thing. I may have to get some to play with. Oooh, a trip to the yarn store - sounds dangerous! to my checkbook, anyway. We'll see.
Today is a colored pencil day, so better get back to it.
Go watch those videos - they're cool!
Last Friday I posted a video by Lynne Chapman, a wonderful children's book illustrator from the UK, who has done a little series of interviews on how she works as a children's book illustrator and specifically her process with her latest book
Bears on the Stairs. Here is her latest installment, where she talks about how she plans out a book. She also explains how advances and royalties work. Visit her
website for a lot more great information and a look into her world of fabulously whimisical characters and art.
How to illustrate a book - Part 2 from Open College of the Arts on Vimeo.
One of my favorite illustrators from the UK is Lynne Chapman. I love her blog so much because she shares so much of her
process with her readers. She works in pastels which is a fragile medium. Here is a photo of her art table as she was finishing up her book. She sends the finished artwork to the publisher, who scans the work and sends back the digital art to her on a disk. She can then go in and alter the artwork in Photoshop to her liking.
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There's a new yarn - a Malabrigo Rios - which is 100% Merino wool, but also washable. If you know about these things, you know that wool usually 'felts' in the wash. So washable wool is a pretty cool thing. I may have to get some to play with. Oooh, a trip to the yarn store - sounds dangerous! to my checkbook, anyway. We'll see.
One of my all-time favorite blogs! She is so generous with her posts.....and soooo talented!
I know and I agree Macdeb! :o)