Children's Book Illustration (fall 2010, 2 weeks left)

I'm going to start posting some stuff from the classes I have this semester, even though there's only a couple of weeks left. I've just been wanting to post some of it online for a while now.

And, like some previous posts, these images are in reverse chronological order (the more recent projects are shown first).


This is the rough storyboard for my final project in Children's Book Ill. I have to make this storyboard, and then three full-color illustrations. My story is about a pigeon who sees a hat he likes in a magazine, and tries to go find the same hat for himself.


These were some drawings I made for a "one day" project that involved trying to create characters and images that could be used for a children's board book.



This was an ABC book illustration project. I picked castles for my theme. These three are all either in Scotland or Ireland. I looked at a medieval font alphabet I found online for the lettering. Coloring was digital.


This project involved illustrating a poem. I chose an excerpt from a poem about pigeons. I played with some watercolor and scanned the results, then incorporated some of that into the picture. I liked the visual feel of the final, and hope to try more things like this in the future.



Imagination themed illustration - "Cats Coming Out of Your Ears". Gouache. The second image contains color studies. This was one of my first illustrations with gouache, I was happy with how this it turned out!


Childhood Memory piece. Scanned line drawing then did some loose coloring.