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don t forget the double e wednesday july 26 2017 goldilocks and the three bears sometimes i get an idea for a piece and possibly for a book dummy by just taking some time to draw in my sketchbook to see what falls out of my head initially this was the sketch top right corner i was playing with framing in the sketch directly below it i was also drawing my tenacious and sleepy frenchie baxter but that s another blog post i will also revisit the caterpillar infested bush in the upper left corner i decided from my second sketch that 1 i wanted to change up the pictures on the wall 2 i liked the idea of decorative woodwork though i also preferred the tighter crop of the original sketch 3 goldilocks needs to be more of a contrast to the three bears 4 i needed to abandon the idea of the larger bear painting it was too distracting i came up with this much more fun i made some minor sizing adjustments and here is the finish posted by unknown at 11 50 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday april 18 2017 another month another entry something about the scbwi draw this prompt word really inspired me this month and this idea just popped into my head it was really fun to do and i have been craving cheese puffs ever since posted by unknown at 12 31 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday february 9 2017 finished winter postcard scbwi draw this entry the finish is finally here and i can t wait for the postcards to come in below is the finished postcard my submission for draw this omits the bottom half posted by unknown at 7 31 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday february 6 2017 more color studies even though i do my first color studies in photoshop i also do traditional color studies i have also been experimenting more and more with limited palettes and a traditional color study helps me reevaluate my color choices for this piece i chose to use payne s gray pthalo blue red shade cadmium red burnt sienna naples yellow and titanium white i also had been toying with the idea of making a pronounced heart shape with the bird nest somehow but i was on the fence about it however once the scbwi february insight came out and announced that the illustration prompt word was love i had my answer posted by unknown at 10 16 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday january 19 2017 postcards making changes in my last post i mentioned that it was time to send out promotional postcards however the more i thought about it the more i realized that the illustration i planned on using was just not going to be readable don t get me wrong i ll still be doing that piece possibly even expand it into a story book dummy but i need to simplify for the postcard i was doodling in my sketchbook trying out some different ideas when i came up with my new current postcard plan it began as a simple idea a bird nest with a winter scarf wrapped around it to keep the birds warm but then i thought i could expand a little how did the scarf get there i thought i d do a little sequence to work it out and this was the result i still needed photoshop to play with the size of my characters again i wanted them to be more readable this is the final sketch i haven t yet decided if the bottom image will be on the back of the postcard as a little surprise or if it will look better as it is here i also did a rough color study in photoshop just to get an idea of where this will be going these colors aren t set in stone they re just a guide and now on to the final posted by unknown at 8 44 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday january 14 2017 an ode to photoshop admittedly i need to be more diligent with sending out promotional postcards that should probably be my belated new year s resolution so i am starting by sending out a winter themed illustration i was doodling in my sketchbook when i had a fun idea that had a lot of moving parts there was one problem in my excitement i left no room for text and text is kind of important for a postcard i also wanted to fiddle around a bit with the scale of the animals so they not only read better but so they remained the focus of the illustration not the snowman and kept the eye moving enter photoshop i love photoshop it s a little early to declare a valentine but i love photoshop it s really the perfect tool for when your composition is already established but you need to tweak everything it s also just great for cleaning up scanned sketches it doesn t look too drastic but trust so much is different everything just works better i debated removing the owl from the upper left corner but i kept it because i think once my name gets put at the top it will work here s a side by side comparison posted by unknown at 10 08 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday december 5 2016 tomie depaola award contest 2017 entry as i ve done for the past few years now i submitted my entry for the tomie depaola award contest the prompt was a little different this year this year s assignment is to cast yourself as a child in a picture book show your autobiographical character in a scene and make sure to convey the emotion of your character the viewer should be able to read the emotion of the character immediately and clearly i was very intimidated at first but once i got into it i had so much fun here is the final image posted by unknown at 8 49 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me unknown view my complete profile some friends of mine greenwillow books blog annie beth ericsson stasia salvucci we re both happy you found the place okay view my illustrations here my website my portfolio on behance watch my animatic on vimeo blog archive 2017 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