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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
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These are GREAT! Thank you for sharing the links. I'm finding the whole Photoshop brush thing in combo with the cintiq to be so fun- I just wish that I had more of technical mind to really take advantage of all of the possibilities...I suppose I just need to practice more, like varying else.
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.
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...
Ah I love them! :) When I was making textures for my Dirty Dog illustrations I wrapped cellotape round my hand and wipes floors and whatnot with the cellotape and scanned it in and layered it over.
This glorious colour is the icing on the commission cake. I really like the subtle colour palette shifts in the background mutants. The overall effect is very well balanced. I can really see the 'cowardly' lion taking down a zebra :-) Personally I think the dialogue adds that little extra enjoyable whimsy to the work, justifying just why the odd Oz lot are in there... you could also have "Johnny and Judge have a wizard day out"... although that does sound like an Enid Blyton book title too ;-)
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).
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.
1 Comments on Ticking along..., last added: 3/18/2011
A comfortable bed! I understand...a comfortable bed makes life so much better. We had once that sagged n the middle and every morning I would wake up achy and tired. We filed a warrantee claim on it (Termpupedic) and the new bed is heaven!
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.
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.
Fabulous! Lettuce sent me a text to say they were having the best time EVER! I think you must have given her quite a lot of coffee, she was texting in all caps and with way more exclamation marks than usual. x
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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These are GREAT! Thank you for sharing the links. I'm finding the whole Photoshop brush thing in combo with the cintiq to be so fun- I just wish that I had more of technical mind to really take advantage of all of the possibilities...I suppose I just need to practice more, like varying else.
xo