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Blog: andrea joseph's sketchblog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: Watercolor Wednesdays (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: andrea joseph's sketchblog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: andrea joseph's sketchblog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: Watercolor Wednesdays (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: Eric Orchard (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Above are two panels from Maddy Kettle from pages self rejected.
I actually had a false start with Maddy Kettle. I got five pages in using just a Rapidograph for inking (and a brush for spotting blacks) but this took forever and the result was really disappointing. The single width line lacked life. Many artists produce phenomenal work using that kind of line but I realize now that that's a certain type of aesthetic and you really need to plan for it. And practice that type of work. I found I had no immediate facility for it and would have to spend time working on it. And I wasn't at all interested in doing this. The idea of using a Rapidograph had more to do with being efficient rather than trying to attain a certain look.
I also made an attempt at inking entirely digitally, using a Cintiq. I didn't try this with Maddy Kettle but with an illustration assignment and the Shadow Talker comic. The final results were surprisingly good. There was no real dip in quality. However, inking a complex image digitally is no faster than than inking traditionally. In fact, because much of my work is so detailed I found myself zooming in and working in an overly finicky manner. And I found this wasn't improving the final image, it only slowed things down. On top of this digital inking looks more precise than I felt the Maddy Kettle comic should. The best comic work I've done always contains many traces of my mark making. After comparing digital and traditional work I discovered that hand made marks are an essential part of my drawing. I will use digital drawing techniques on this book but it needs to be an addition to the traditional work, not a replacement. I can see the benefit of using purely digital in another project but it didn't suit this.
Another thing that wasn't working for me was the paper size. I did these first pages 11 by 15 inches, so a drawing are of about 10 by 14. I thought this would be fine but I found it totally constricting. Maddy Kettle is pretty sweeping in parts so it needs the space to be that way. I ended up working on pages quite a bit larger.
So now I needed to find what would work. I had eliminated the option of using a single tool and Top Shelf had given me the go ahead on the book (the story and dialog being finalized) so I had no time for leisurely exploration and had to jump right into the project. So I looked through my work to see what had worked and if I could improve on that.
Blog: Monday Artday (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: Eric Orchard (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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This is a pretty common scene in our house but this is the first time it's been captured on digital film... I can actually get a lot done this way. Many of my work days are ten hours long and Julie has similar days so this helps Henry feel a part of things and I think he's learned not to make any additions.
I'm working on the Baba Yaga drawing here, which I just now finished the inks for. I'm thinking this will be the inaugural piece in the online print store I'm opening. Does anyone have any pieces they'd like to have as a print?
I'm taking a short reading break right now and then on to the colours. I just picked up the beautiful and enormous Charley Harper art book. It's wonderful and almost intoxicating.
Blog: Eric Orchard (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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I'm currently feverishly attempting to finish this months sketchbook so I can move on to the next one. Last year I used cheap, boring sketchbooks. This year I plan on spending lots of money on sketchbooks of odd sizes of varying colours and with thick paper.
Blog: Monday Artday (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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I always found it hard to take anyone seriously who wears a vest and chaps.
Just a little sketch...would have liked to have finished...Deadlines, Deadlines, DEAD----lines.
Blog: Eric Orchard (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Here are some ink doodles from my last sketchbook(Nov 08 to Dec 08) I've been studiously keeping sketchbooks since I was 14. I think there is no better tool in exploring your own artistic potential. Now of course I have boxes and boxes of them.
I am once again looking at being represented by an agent. I was talking with the super-talented and inspirational Colleen Doran earlier and she suggested my problem with agencies earlier may have been to do with the type of agents I was looking at. That perhaps a literary agent might be a better choice than an art agency. She has done a tonne of research on the subject and published the results here on her blog. At the moment I'm talking to 5 different publishers and it's just too much. things keep petering out. So, I'll give it another try.
And finally, do you like Lord Of The Rings? Well, blogger Kate Nepveu is weekly publishing a post about her reading of the book on the Tor.com site. I'll be reading along and leaving comments. Also, I may republish my thoughts here.
Blog: Monday Artday (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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What is the flower that likes summer the best? Ofcourse, it is the sunflower. Here is a whimsical ink drawing featuring the 'portrait of a sunflower family'.
Do you see another family too?
© Trapezoid Art
Blog: Monday Artday (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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If interested in seeing more of my artwork, please visit Trapezoid Art .
Blog: Eric Orchard (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Here is yet another piece from my favorite art school project, my Scandanavian Myth project. This is a pretty dark piece and not very refind but I find it interesting as an experiment. I really wanted in this picture to evoke an expression of mass and shadows and perhaps evil. I'm not very good at evil, I shy away from extremely dark imagery. I think I can infer something dark but a direct visual translation seems false to me. Some artists pull it off really well, like Goya. In this piece I do like the exploration of mood and place, which was the point. After I had done this piece I felt freer to have more finished pieces have a more pronounced sense of emotion and expression.
I watched Revenge Of The Sith yesterday and I can't stop watching the opening spaceship battle sequence. I want to watch it over and over, it's the craziest, coolest thing. Well, I like it.
Blog: Happy Healthy Hip Parenting (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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I'm meeting with Colin Thompson (and some folks from Fox Studios) so if there are any questions I can ask him from his fans, pass them my way. He's thrilled to publish his picture book, The Little Book of Happy Sadness (coming in September, 2008) and even more from him in seasons following, including Norman and Brenda, a sequel to The Short & Incredibly Happy Life of Riley.
Norman and Brenda
(coming soon from Kane/Miller Book Publishers, Inc.)
Blog: Ellie McDoodle (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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This is Ellie, from book 2, embarrassed and trying to melt into the floor.Suddenly my time is my own, again.
I've been working nonstop since September on the second Ellie book, first some marketing stuff with the publisher and then the revised art and writing for it.
All during November I worked all day and all night on the book. I stayed up til 2, 3, 4 in the morning. Sometimes til after 6am. Sometimes I went to bed at 3 and had to get up at 7:30 to get my daughter to school. It was a grueling schedule, definitely.
I missed some very important events. I don't even want to list them because if I think about it too much I'll be too sad and will question my priorities.
Basically I put my life on hold, for the book.
Nobody asked me to.
Nobody forced it on me.
I have a weird sense of focus when it comes to books.
Whether reading them or creating them, I enter the world of the characters and it's nearly impossible to come back out before the job is done.
With Harry, Hermione and Ron, my teenage self became the fourth buddy, the one not mentioned in the book by the author. I hung out with Hermione in the girls' dorm. I had a crush on both Ron and Harry, and wondered whose side Snape was on. In that big cataclysmic fight scene I was there, helping our guys to triumph over evil.
It's the same way with my Ellie McDoodle books. I become part of the book, both observer and creator, an unwritten and unmentioned character who goes on every adventure, shares in every secret and sometimes wishes my real life was so exciting.
(Actually, my real life is plenty exciting, but a lot of that is due to the books!)
All through November I lived the Ellie book.
I sent the last package of art and text to arrive on my editor's desk on the last day of the month.
There will still be little revisions, and the first package of the first 44 pages has some very rough art in it, so there are about 11 illustrations that I know will need redrawing.
But the bulk of it is done.
Book 2 is written.
I think you'll enjoy it. I laughed a few times, out loud, while writing it.
I felt Ellie's angst and I understood her pain in certain scenes.
I think the reader will, also.
Ellie McDoodle: New Kid in School won't be on bookshelves until the end of June. In this book, Ellie starts at a new school in a new city without any friends.
Like me, Ellie has trouble sleeping before the big event.
Here's a sneak peek at page 66:
Now, I can't wait for the whole thing to be printed into a galley and then published as a real book.
I think it's a good one!
But there's plenty of things to do before the book comes out.
Like answer all this email.
I have 958 messages accumulated, which need responses. Very few of them need only filing or deleting.
If you've written me and you've waited patiently for two months for a response, know that you've got plenty of company, and I might be responding soon...
Blog: Ellie McDoodle (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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I love making-of posts like this. Thanks Eric! Fascinating stuff.
Thanks Glendon! I p;an to do a series, getting into specifics on materials and process over the next while. ( I think it's awesome we're debating religion elsewhere on the web....)
Do any of these tools allow you to create textures you can reuse? It could be a good trade-off between digital speed and hand-made depth.
I have tried that, Chebuctonian, but it never works out properly. I've never been happy with the results, it lacks the same randomness and descriptive quality that appears on other parts of the page and stands out more. It's something I may revisit at the end of working on this book if time starts to feel too tight. I also just find it difficult to segment the process in that way, it's not a totally comfortable approach to me.
I find it's hard to mimic what traditional medium do in digital too. I can 'fake' it sometimes.. but I always find there's something missing.
This pages are absolutely wonderful, Eric! woah..
Thanks so much Charles! It really was a case of having establish a "look" with traditional media and in order to do something I'd have been equally happy with digitally it would've required a lot of exploration and experimenting. And I really didn't feel I had the time to do it. Also, drawing digitally takes me about the same amount of time as working traditionally, so it didn't make sense in that respect either.
I'm glad you like these pages! I was pretty dissatisfied with them. I was doing extensive work with a rapidograph for the first time here and I found the learning curve was steeper than I had hoped! And I missed the variety of lines.