Sad Week

I planned on grabbing a few hours of drawing here and there in the midst of my crazy week. However my interior design project(that is due on Wednesday!) has consumed my ever moment. I know that is not an excuse, but I do plan on working really hard this week to make up for time lost last week.

Time Log 9

Total Hours: 0 :(

Mid-term Critique

I received some great feed back from the mid-term critique. I love the suggestion about making a one human size community marshmallow to share for the campfire scene instead of individual marshmallows! So incorporating life size human objects could really be a neat aspect of the illustrations. It was also nice to hear that I do not have to meet ADA codes or standards and I can be as creative as I want to be for their home! I needed that! I hope that with this feedback that I will be able to explore those suggestions!

Time Log 8

Monday 10.11.10
5hrs.
I worked on the rendering the campfire scene. I researched illustrations of night time and even went and took a few pictures of  my back yard at night. I began brainstorming how I wanted to capture the night time campfire scene.

Tuesday 10.12.10
4hrs.
I shopped for different colored primacolor markers for my illustrations at the AU bookstore (and tested probably all of the markers offered).
I also worked on rendering the campfire scene. I want to put fireflies in the campfire scene, so I experimented with how to draw and illuminate them. 

Wednesday 10.13.11
1hrs.
Brainstorming possibilities of incorporating human objects (life size) into the illustrations.

Total Hours:
10hrs.

Color Finally

I love to have direction so narrowing down my tasks for illustrating Shmoops-see-poo was relieving. I love to draw from real life inspiration so going outside and studying tree roots was interesting and fun! I also was able to add some color this week. My drawings, up until now, were just sketches so adding splashes of color really helps bring the story to life.

Time Log 7

Saturday 10.9.10
4hrs.
Sketching Smoop-see-poo and Lucy waiting scene

Sunday 10.10.10
11hrs.
Illustrating Family Portraits
Working on waiting scene again
Thinking about ideas for Willow Tree Home scene

Total Hours:
15hrs.

Final Contract

I will be hand illustrating six different scenes for the book Shmoop-see-poo.
1.) The Family Portraits
2.) The Willow Tree Home
3.) Shmoop-see poo and Lucy Waiting
4.) Uncle Fester’s Arrival
5.) Campfire
6.) Breakfast

Once these are complete I will dabble in food/object art by illustrating several scenes from a story.

Examples of Illustrator's Work

Style and Medium

When I was researching inspiration for different illustration techniques I found a helpful website( http://www.childrensillustrators.com) that was a wonderful source of many children illustrators. I explored the different materials and styles that each artist uses from collage, paper sculpture, gouache, oil, pastel, watercolor, woodcut, acrylic, cartoon, and 3-D computer to just name a few. It was really neat to see many unique ways to capture a children's story. Each artist had their own since of style and creativity and it was so much fun exploring each of the artist portfolios.

I regret that I was not able to spend more time on drawing this week. I have a HUGE interior design project due, and it has consumed my every waking moment (and quite frankly my sleeping moments too)! However, I plan to work on drawing a lot this week especially over fall break.   

Time Log 6

Monday 10.11.10
2hrs. 30mins.
Researching the different style and medium of children's illustrations.
30mins.
Blogging

Total Time:
3hrs.