I was introduced to here because it was a place to get a quick thing to paint. It is wonderful sometimes to warm up with a sketch on something completely different and this is completely different.

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The Rockwall is an ongoing children book  with me right now. Where I am in relation to the posts doesn’t always match up with what I am currently working on. Right now I am currently working on the final paintings for the book.
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I have to start with an apology. This post will have no great photos, or to be a bit more honest I am not sure that any of these thumbnails will even be readable to the casual viewer. The drawing in my storyboards usually look like a mad game of Pictionary so let me decipher both the squiggly lines and my thoughts behind them. Let me walk you through the primordial ooze of The Rockwall in this installment  of my posts on Children’s Book Design and reveal some of the “Thumbnails and Storyboards” that make up the book.
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Cut every illustration down to its elements you should have a black and white image, and you will most likely see some triangles. Cut a story down and you should have a sentence or two for a synopsis. Well, cut an idea down, and you sometimes start with something that grows into a different shape. Like an acorn that ends up growing into an oak tree; the oak tree looks nothing like its originator.

The Rockwall Goblins Sort of started that way. It was out of another book, The Secret Magics of Maine that these creatures and concept came.
–>> Continue reading THE IDEA