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gggraph
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 Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:19 pm Post subject: Picture Book |
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Hi all - I have recently started working on a kid's picture book for a publisher client of mine. I've laid out or worked on several, but this will be the first one I've illustrated in my own right. This is the first spread, and is to establish style for the remainder. The MS is still be revised, but in this section a toy robot has become lost and finds himself in one of the less desirable sections of town.
I'm trying REALLY hard to avoid looking like Toy Story, Wall-e, Number 5 or the drones from Silent Running...
Cheers
Grant
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biki
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:43 pm Post subject: Re - Picture Book |
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looks good to me. 
i am sorry that i do not know enough about this genre to make a more informed comment. all i know is that it pleases me. |
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Jo Tyler
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| Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:59 pm Post subject: Re - Picture Book |
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Looks really good Grant, I love the angled angle  |
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KimO
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| Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:15 pm Post subject: Re - Picture Book |
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| Great work Grant! Looks really good. |
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jasmine
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| Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:35 pm Post subject: Re - Picture Book |
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| It looks great Grant! The robot does remind me of wall-e though (although I haven't seen the movie)! Is that a character in the book? |
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gggraph
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 7:53 am Post subject: Re: Re - Picture Book |
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| jasmine wrote: | | It looks great Grant! The robot does remind me of wall-e though (although I haven't seen the movie)! Is that a character in the book? |
Thanks jasmine, and all... The robot is the main character, although what he (?) is and what happens to him is still being worked out. In the MS, he has tracks (one of which has been lost at this point in the story) so I'm trying to avoid looking like any of the other tracked robots around.
Cheers
Grant |
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Allison-
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:02 pm Post subject: Re - Picture Book |
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| i really like the way the dumpsters have been rendered authentic but without being too realistic. |
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jaycm
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| Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 7:41 pm Post subject: Re - Picture Book |
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Hi Grant,
not a criticism, just an observation: the Robot looks like he is heading to the 'more' desirable sections of town, and away from the 'less'.
Maybe have the town in muted tones, like Shaun Tan's book cover 'The Lost thing' http://www.shauntan.net/books.html,
with a brick wall across the scene, and add some grafitti; make more of your smashed windows.
Great illustration though. Good luck with the book.
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jaycm
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| Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 7:42 pm Post subject: Re - Picture Book |
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Hi Grant,
not a criticism, just an observation: the Robot looks like he is heading to the 'more' desirable sections of town, and away from the 'less'.
Maybe have the town in muted tones, like Shaun Tan's book cover 'The Lost thing' http://www.shauntan.net/books.html,
with a brick wall across the scene, and add some grafitti; make more of your smashed windows.
Great illustration though. Good luck with the book.
Jay. |
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gggraph
Joined: 25 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 8:08 pm Post subject: Re - Picture Book |
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Thanks Jay - in the final scan, the whole all on the left has been darkened considerably to hold the text better.
BTW, the Lost Thing is being made into a movie. Shaun does fabulous work - in fact I asked him who did his scanning, so we're using the same people (Hell Colour - Hi, Filomena...)
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Grant |
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gggraph
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 7:31 am Post subject: Re - Picture Book |
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Another spread from the world's slowest moving book (actually this is #4, so I'm not quite that bad.). Since October last year I've had a bit of disruption on the job side of things, so painting has unfortunately gone on the back burner. Time I got back into it.
I still need to add some highlights (possibly by May) and don't like the mist across the buildings, so I'll fix that in Photoshop when the hi-res scans are done.
Cheers
Grant
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Jade
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:23 am Post subject: Re - Picture Book |
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| how exciting mate! They are lookin good so far, love the expression on the robot, and the perspective in the first one. |
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thecatsgrin
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 12:10 pm Post subject: Re - Picture Book |
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| I love it Grant, although the grey buildings take away from the picture and the sea gull.... maybe if they were darker? I'm not sure, but it is a nice picture anyway! |
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wildatart
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 12:12 pm Post subject: Re - Picture Book |
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Looking brilliant Grant! Congrats on everything that's been going on lately too!
I'd probably suggest a glaze over the wind of the seagull to add more depth but apart form that this is looking wonderful! |
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gggraph
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 5:26 pm Post subject: Re - Picture Book |
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Thanks, Leigh. Wendy, I'll probably take the buildings down a bit in the final scan so they recede a bit more.
12 to go...
Cheers
Grant |
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