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LAST illustration! I think.

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So I’ve started working on the very last illustration for my ‘worries’ project (title is temporary). The task of sending this out into the world is super daunting . . . So if anyone has any tips, advice, connections, etc. please give me a shout.
I have managed to write an accompanying story as well, which feels like a step in the right direction (although as I trawl the internet and find out more about the world of childrens publishing, maybe not so much?  I don’t know).  Am searching for ideas for the title, and the perfect name for the main character.  So far I like Violet and Zoe.
I’m back at work now, and so thankful I had time over the summer to be anti social and hunker down and get things done. I have a feeling the next few steps of this project will happen in slow motion. Oy.

Summer painting

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So with the summer off, I resolved to finish painting in the illustrations from this story.  This project feels like it’s been going on forever, and I am ready to finish it and send it away from me where it will magically be published by a group of wonderful people who feel like paying me for an unsolicited semi autobiographical comic-y children’s story about anxiety.  Or I at least am ready to start officially writing it.

As it turns out finishing the painting might have been overly ambitious, as there are always distractions in life (like sunny days or trying to not be the lamest friend always), and it turns out I don’t have the longest attention span and seek distractions after about 4 hours of painting.  I also don’t know what is a normal amount of time to spend painting something like this, but it seems to be quite the slow process.  I want to say I’m a perfectionist, but there are just a lot of little details that take a really really long time to do.  And it takes me a long time to pick any colours that aren’t blue.Anyways, when I put everything together in a pile of finished paintings, I feel much better about things.  So that is what I am going to do.  I will try to keep them in order.  Also, I just got an iphone and am very excited about it, so the image quality may decrease and feature retro filters and scratchy framing effects.

beautiful art site

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These are a couple of inspiring pages I’ve stumbled across. Soo amazing to see what everyone’s imaginations are filled with, and I love how artists seem to give in to their style so completely. I especially like Rui Ribeiro’s beautiful drawings.

http://www.pikaland.com
Rui Ribeiro’s art at: http://www.cofseeing.com/

illustration numero uno

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this is an illustration for a story i'm working on.

so. . . i am uploading an image from a story that i’m working on.  the story is about a young girl who is dealing with worries that take the form of clouds and weigh her down.  this illustration is from later on in the story.  the focus on the camera isn’t so good, so i might wait until i get my hands on a different one to take some better pictures before i upload the others.