s always important to know thatallowing artists to have freedom in your commissions make them more pleased to work on your drawing and in general the quality of your illustration will also be even better, I’m not saying it’s easy since I’m the first to come with crazy and precise ...
As you see in this sample, each author kept her way of drawing and created their own Mafalda, not trying to copy Quino but taking ownership of his favorite topics and of Mafalda’s background. It’s very interesting to see how much Mafalda influenced these BD authors and how well-known ...
When she died, the drawing returned to me, and even now I can’t look at it without feeling my nerves made electric and raw from the feeling of that pen on the paper. So me having a bottle of blue ink on my desk is somewhere near anomaly, but when a friend’s artistic teenager s...
(followed with a small drawing of a broken heart) I miss you, Bob… And such were the thoughts on the mind of a child who had only lived a scant eight years at that time. I cherish this little card. Alex is nine now (almost 10 as I would be corrected!). Just imagine what Alex...
Where I feel the graphics become challenging is in the settings themselves. It looks more like a child’s drawing rather than being an illustration from a child’s book, and I think that’s an important distinction to make. There are games out there that pull off the children’s book ill...
AS: Because I like to delve deeper into a story and seek out the origins and purpose of its creation from a historical perspective, Of Darkened Woods is one of my interpretations of the Hansel and Gretel story drawing more from the original German tale and spiritual interpretations while exerci...
There will have soon a new patreon tier that make you sure win a drawing each month. Comapred to the actual 5$ tier there is no raffle since you sure get an illustration but don’t know if put it at 15$ or 20$. On other way I can create two new tiers, at 15$ you can choos...
the house as it is today- the addition on the right is fairly recent Elvina’sfamily home Keflavik Iceland-drawing done in 1974 Gardskagi lighthouse–1897very picturesque. a newer taller lighthouse is at my back- built in 1944near Gardur-Southern Peninsula ( you might need to get another...
You’re encouraged to run with the prompts and create your own fanciful story. Some well-known writers have also been inspired by these clever mysteries. Such as M2’s favorite drawingThe House on Maple Street, that Stephen King penned into a short story found in Nightmares and Dreamscapes ...
When I first saw it (for $700 at Anthropologie, no less) I was stunned and expected it to burn out pretty quickly… but here we are, more than a year later and the trend is still going strong! Continue reading→ Kim Vanlandingham-Obriensays: ...