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Today's #insect #folktaleweek Illuminated Letter! I've never been a fan of most insects in general, but had a lot of fun with this one! How about you? Have a favorite insect? Or not a fan? (Swipe to see some details, too!) #folktaleweek2018
I think this may be my last piece for this round of #matsicb5 class--work and life things have taken over this week and what little creative time I have, I think I need to spend in other ways at the moment. But this was for spread week last week. That bit of text at the bottom is from the beautiful, poetic grief story given for use in the class by @zoe_tucker_design. While my piece didn't end up being quite as directly from the story as I planned, it turned out to be a good creative exercise in pulling a lot from my own grief experiences and childhood. See any familiar stories in there?
Today's #folktaleweek illuminated letter! It's been a tough week, but limiting myself to these small 4inch square letters has been a good way to sneak in a couple of pieces for #folktaleweek2018 despite a lack of time and creative juices. Here's to just keeping on and keeping it simple to get those juices back. ;)
I just realized I never shared this piece from #matsicb5 class! Like with the others, it's pretty different than the official assignment, but I chose a more abstract, sort of visual stream-of-consciousness approach to the story I chose about grief. Mostly I tried to turn my brain off and let things happen without thinking too hard, just putting pencil and brush to page and hoping some of my own grief and mental health struggles will come through somehow. This time around taking this class, it's sort of more like art therapy. #makeartthatsells
This week has been a crazy one and I’m not feeling very creatively inspired, but I promised myself I’d at least attempt something for #folktaleweek so here’s a belated “forest” inspired illuminated letter! I thought I’d narrow my focus and help myself achieve a little at a time by doing a single letter like you might find at the start of the tale itself. Perhaps I’ll be able to squeeze in a full illustration or two yet this week, but in the meantime I’m keeping it simple and focusing on textures in small spaces. :) #folktaleweek2018
My assignment from last week in #matsicb5 Illustrating Children's Books class! Normally, it's supposed to be a sheet of facial expressions, but since this is the third time I've taken the class and I wanted to really push myself and present the text in the way that felt most right to meI submitted this page of hands. I want to really place the reader at the center of this very poetically written grief story, and use the story's garden setting to push how the emotions are felt. I'm normally a pretty strict ruler- follower, but this has been a good exercise in listening to my gut and the story and letting the story, colors, and materials lead the way instead. #makeartthatsells
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My palette today working on character expressions for Illustrating for Children’s Books class. #makeartthatsells #matsicb5
My character design submission for this week's #makeartthatsells #matsicb5 assignment! The text I chose for this class is about a child grieving their grandmother, who taught them to love and care for plants in her garden. I really wanted to focus on the emotions and the richly descriptive, poetic text in this story, so I chose to have us, the reader, be the main character, and keep the visuals a little more abstract as a way to externalize the internal experience of this character. I also thoroughly enjoyed trying out pan pastels and gouache in new ways on bristol board--I can't believe I'd been using watercolor paper this whole time! It was like a completely new medium, and I LOVE it!
I couldn't resist this while working on and playing around with new materials and textures for my #makeartthatsells #matsicb5 Illustrating for Children's Books class assignment! We're working on designing our main character this week, and I'm super excited about it! I'm trying to be brave and break some rules in a good way to best illustrate my text... we'll see how that goes. I keep having to remind myself to go with my gut and enjoy the process instead of only focusing on checking off all the boxes.