© Heather Castles
Went to the market yesterday and bought some fruit… and I loved the curly tops on these pears! So I sketched them while watching a movie last night, then tinted them with colour in Photoshop this morning with a light layer of each green and yellow.
Here are the final sketches for Elizabeth Austin’s children’s book, The Brotherhood of the Stinky Underpants. I’m pretty excited about starting the final illustrations on these, as the story is pretty fun, and Elizabeth was great to work with having a lot of cute suggestions for the illustrations along thee way as well. The final illustrations are going to be in oil over an acrylic underpainting on illustration board…should be fun! I’ll post again once I’ve got the underpainting done.
I’m working book with The James Family called ‘Little Land Adventures’ about several little animals and their adventures! The sketches are finished & approved for the first book, which stars four of the thirteen little characters, so I’m ready to start the final illustrations, whoooo!
This is going to be a little different, as the books will be printed in 2 formats… B&W and colour, both different sizes. So I’ll have to keep the contrast of the illustrations high so that they translate well both in colour and black & white.
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I’m having a lot of fun working on the sketches for Elizabeth Austin’s children’s book, The Brotherhood of the Stinky Underpants, a story about a little boy who, with the help of his big brother and the rest of his family, learns how to use the potty.
I was doodling a bit last night… have had a hankering to illustrate another colourful garden scene, and a fairy, and some kids… so here’s my plan! I’m hoping to use this for a self-promotion piece, and will have time to paint it early next week.
These are the final sketches for “Good-bye, Baby Max”, written by Diane Cantrell, for you to have a peak at as reference when seeing my splotchy first coats of paint on the finals! The swatches in the corner are colours I am thinking of use to paint that particular spread. I am working on the text layout for this book as well, thus the type application on these sketches… I found working with the type & illustrations at once to be very helpful in creating more dynamic illustrations. I’m quite excited about starting the illustrations for this project.
© Heather Castles
An art nouveau inspired butterfly. Signed prints are available at my Etsy.com shop!
With thirteen days ’til deadline for the Blizzard Art Contest, I’m pulling together the scraps of paper I’ve been doodling on and notes and sharing them before I put paintbrush to paper. You can check out my sketches & concepts here, and please feel free to comment / critique / add your two cents worth…
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