Category: Charlie's Dirt Day
For this sketch, I tried to make the composition more interesting by playing with the foreground. I liked the idea of bringing the viewer into the scene on the left side of the spread with a close up of a bowl of freshly picked tomatoes while Charlie and Mr. Martino made a sauce in the background on the right side. Whenever possible, I like to inte ...
Read MoreHere's another peek at some of the final art from my next book.The Character of Charlie was based on a sketch I had done when I was traveling through Europe. At one point, my husband and I were living in Paris and I was drawing more than I ever have in all my life. I did a lot of sketches of children at that time and there was one in particular tha ...
Read MoreWhen designing an illustration for a picture book, you need to leave room for the text. This double page spread had quite a bit of text to work around. In my initial thumbnail, I had envisioned the older man on the right side filling most of the page, however, I ended up needing to adjust him quite a bit to make even more room for text in the space ...
Read MoreTo kick things off, I'd like to share my initial thumb nail sketches and storyboards for my soon-to-be-released children's book, Charlie's Dirt Day, written by Andrew Larsen and published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside.The first thing I did when I got the manuscript was read it over many times, making notes in the margins and jotting down ideas and i ...
Read MoreFor those of you who inquired about when my next picture book, Charlie's Dirt Day by Andrew Larsen, will be available, the release date has been pushed to Monday, December 15th. A few people mentioned wanting to buy it as a Christmas gift and although I recommend supporting brick and mortar book stores, you can also pre-oder it on Amazon.ca ri ...
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