Comments on: Riley’s Tooth | First Watercolour Wash http://blog.illustrationcastle.com/2009/04/28/rileys-tooth-first-watercolour-wash/ - ramblings & advice from illustrator Heather Castles Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:08:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Terri Fabula http://blog.illustrationcastle.com/2009/04/28/rileys-tooth-first-watercolour-wash/#comment-870847 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:23:14 +0000 http://blog.illustrationcastle.com/2009/04/28/rileys-tooth-first-watercolour-wash/#comment-870847 Wow! Thanks so much for putting your working method on the web for us poor beginners to see. I am just getting started as an Children's Book Illustrator and am confused about exactly how my watercolor paintings come together in book form....not something any of my teachers have explained to me! I have just gotten my first job to illustrate a children's book for a couple of professors at the college (I have one year of school left but am 99% self-taught) and am feeling panic as I don't know what size to paint on or how to combine the right side with the left side, etc. I only had one class with InDesign so am not very adept at using it at this point. I do have the adobe creative suite 4 but only understand PhotoShop so far. Can you give me any advice on the side of watercolor paper you paint on? Do you paint, for example, a separate paper for the right and for the left and then put them together in PhotoShop? What size works well for a children's book, Any advice will be greatly appreciated, Thanks, Terri Wow! Thanks so much for putting your working method on the web for us poor beginners to see. I am just getting started as an Children’s Book Illustrator and am confused about exactly how my watercolor paintings come together in book form….not something any of my teachers have explained to me!

I have just gotten my first job to illustrate a children’s book for a couple of professors at the college (I have one year of school left but am 99% self-taught) and am feeling panic as I don’t know what size to paint on or how to combine the right side with the left side, etc. I only had one class with InDesign so am not very adept at using it at this point. I do have the adobe creative suite 4 but only understand PhotoShop so far.

Can you give me any advice on the side of watercolor paper you paint on? Do you paint, for example, a separate paper for the right and for the left and then put them together in PhotoShop? What size works well for a children’s book,

Any advice will be greatly appreciated,
Thanks,
Terri

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