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Another darned faun. Cintiq + Sketchbook Pro Cintiq + Sketchbook Pro

Created using: Cintiq + Sketchbook Pro

I downloaded the trial version of Sketchbook PRO and it's wonderful for sketching/drawing. The pencil tool has a nice feel to it. Though the interface of the program is a bit confusing, it's still fun to draw with. Here are some sketches: Black and white drawn in Sketchbook Pro: Drawn in Sketchbook Pro, colored in Photoshop: Drawn and colored in Sketchbook Pro:

One of my favorite children's books is "The Five Chinese Brothers" by Claire Huchet Bishop and Kurt Wiese. It's a retelling of an old Chinese legend about five brothers who looked exactly alike with each posessing special abilities. When one is arrested for murder and condemned to be executed, they work together to outwit the executioner by using their individual abilities.

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. An amazing piece of literature from a definite voice in the literary world. I actually have two copies of this, my old copy that's been read many times and my autographed copy I won last year when Chuck came to do an event in Winnipeg. It was quite an event, as Chuck actually left the stage in anger after people were shouting after he asked them not to. I had just won my Easter basket of goodies for asking a question. (I asked if he had ever thought of writing for kids...he joked about "getting a piece of that Harry Potter money.") He came back out and finished the show though. It was funny as a whole audience got the treatment that I've given to my students...the old "whole class suffers as a result of one wiseass" bit...Good times.

Maurice Sendak is one of my favorite illustrators of all time, since I was a kid.
So this is a quickie homage. (you know you're setting yourself up for failure when you can never compare to the original!)



I was trying a new technique on this one, so as always, feedback is appreciated!

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This piece was done by my 5 year old daughter. Her favorite book is Horns and Wrinkles by Joseph Helgerson and Nicoletta Ceccoli. This picture is of the Old Lady who is actually a fairy.
It's done in marker.

Two of my faves...Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Mark Bowden's Blackhawk Down. Both of these authors are responsible for great works that you have trouble believing actually happened. Everybody know Thompson's work, or they should, so I'm not gonna go into it, but Bowden's work is worth checking out. Fantastic non-fiction that reads like fiction...page-turners from non-fiction! Amazing work!

If there's more spare time this week, I may get time to do a few more for this challenge. I read a lot, and have trouble picking faves!

My Favorite books tend to have a lot of pictures in them, though I do have a few with words too.

This is such a fun theme and I'm just participating for the fun of it.

My favorite book is such a predictably girlie book, but I just love the story and all the irony and wit intertwined into the narrative.

Moby Dick is my favorite book. I did this for IF some time ago... I'll try to do another.

The challenge for the week of February 11th through the 17th:
"Favorite Book"

Do an illustration for your favorite book. Have fun and good luck!