tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32874625212715067142024-02-07T09:15:14.168+00:00Alene IllustrationAlison Muttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006300629466038125noreply@blogger.comBlogger588125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287462521271506714.post-80743776672444993052020-10-27T14:14:00.006+00:002020-10-27T14:14:44.988+00:00Book Cover: Story Magic<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Last year Jolly Fish Press asked me to do the cover for <i>Story Magic</i> by Laurel Gale. It was such a fun assignment, and to celebrate its publication day, I thought I'd do an epic blog post about how the cover came together, and explain the process of working with a publisher. This was also the first commercial assignment I did working (almost) exclusively in Procreate on my iPad Pro.</span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Step 1: The Assignment</i></b></span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I was not given the text of <i>Story Magic</i> to read - instead, I was given a brief blurb, and some notes. I was told that the cover should:</span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">- Have a magical vibe</span><br />
<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">- Have a 'hero's journey' vibe</span><br />
<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">- Reflect a more traditional middle-grade high fantasy style</span><br />
<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">- Convey stories or storytelling in some way</span><br />
<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">- Depict the main character (Kaya)</span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I was also told that the author liked bold colours, especially green, blue and purple, silhouettes and stylised characters rather than straight realism. </span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I was given the following book covers as inspiration:</span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><i>Extraordinary Birds</i> by <a href="https://sandystarkmcginnis.com/">Sandy Stark-McGinnis</a>, cut-paper cover art by <a href="http://www.harianddeepti.com/about-2">Hari & Deepti</a></span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-9gYMVUyO7v5Cn85lMgPLd3eeJItw7MoXzE4piWFlVSVKH5kxRvatCHKQlBG2GXERM5sdwJ4W8VUecYqXEGolcIlvf9Bsk_9vxlthYZXc9tsyNs5FdEBYXJMRqh8dsWmiJVSewI3OKMM/s1600/ExtraordinaryBirds_cvr_20_max-res.jpg"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-9gYMVUyO7v5Cn85lMgPLd3eeJItw7MoXzE4piWFlVSVKH5kxRvatCHKQlBG2GXERM5sdwJ4W8VUecYqXEGolcIlvf9Bsk_9vxlthYZXc9tsyNs5FdEBYXJMRqh8dsWmiJVSewI3OKMM/s320/ExtraordinaryBirds_cvr_20_max-res.jpg" width="212" /></a></span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><i>The Girl Who Drank The Moon </i>by <a href="http://www.kellybarnhill.com/">Kelly Barnhill</a>, cover art by <a href="http://yutaonoda.com/">Yuta Onoda</a></span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_7TlaBvXF7GmCIpKRGFO_CYAlCIIcsVetXtJfu7L5OjM162QvZkE4L_tYdnuyHp6_IMEtpWAeWVL-sgnseJMXdSNnOZfcqHJFLKe_abOc7SeHznBdP-XbzatQ2902oAHl9DhOWO9bmyM/s1600/35666866.jpg"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_7TlaBvXF7GmCIpKRGFO_CYAlCIIcsVetXtJfu7L5OjM162QvZkE4L_tYdnuyHp6_IMEtpWAeWVL-sgnseJMXdSNnOZfcqHJFLKe_abOc7SeHznBdP-XbzatQ2902oAHl9DhOWO9bmyM/s320/35666866.jpg" width="208" /></a></span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I was also given some stock photographs of women the author thought looked a bit like she imagined Kaya to look, and a rough description of her appearance and clothing. </span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Finally, I was told that they liked the idea of some sort of embellished drop-capitals in the title text.</span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">To start with, in the original email I was sent, there were two suggested scenes for me to illustrate, but by the time I had the assignment and was given details, this had been reduced to just one:</span><br />
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<i><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Kaya has climbed to the top of a large tree and she's looking down on the city of Prima. She looks determined (she's made it through a long journey to save her brother). Per the text: The dopest ended a short distance ahead. Beyond it lay a sprawling city, waves of streets and buildings leading to a giant fortress with towers that soared into the clouds. (...) From her treetop view, Prima had looked enormous and beautiful, filled with colourful houses and towers that touched the clouds. </span></i></blockquote>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Step 2: Designing Kaya</i></b></span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Based on the images and description I had been given, I started to design the character of Kaya. Coupled with the stock photos I had been provided with, I had a description from the author:</span><br />
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<i><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">'Kaya is slender, scrawny even, with big brown eyes, straight brown hair, a thin nose and olive skin. She wears a dress with long sleeves and a long skirt, often with the blankets she knitted wrapped around as a shawl.'</span></i></blockquote>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I did a few sketches of faces, settled on one, and then started to design her costume. I had been told 'traditional high fantasy' but I didn't really know what sort of costumes would suit the world of the book, so I tried a number of different options:</span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJguxqvX0URCf_W1GuXIbAfKy9ergsfhgi3MWSjI8AE93_qrZWzRgKGZklGUUta2qJ0DG0NtYHhwCH5XhyPtQlb5up5phGoyl1NjKybykO34eHnbs1PoIfX7o91IVI0hVAYZzWOfdZuVg/s1600/sketches+for+blog.jpg"><img border="0" height="516" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJguxqvX0URCf_W1GuXIbAfKy9ergsfhgi3MWSjI8AE93_qrZWzRgKGZklGUUta2qJ0DG0NtYHhwCH5XhyPtQlb5up5phGoyl1NjKybykO34eHnbs1PoIfX7o91IVI0hVAYZzWOfdZuVg/s640/sketches+for+blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">(some of the faces on the right are from my initial sketching. I've combined everything here.)</span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Then I waited for everyone to get back to me and let me know if I needed to come up with more concepts or not. In this case, I was lucky- they chose costume 1!</span><br />
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<b><i><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Step 3: Rough Concepts</span></i></b><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">With the go-ahead on the look of Kaya, it was time to start coming up with concepts for the cover itself.</span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN1XkTmNkmL3-MkRYTvQ5D3vwRXJaB3opj10sSG3iLhwC7-PTrnVeMUUL5fcjtmP8BQeNfDgr_0RdOvjQ1kzUYLvtas3ZC0uSlMr6dB_mnrxgfgZPLW9lqN1jM8GYv2CUpz6UxVMNTWdU/s1600/concepts+for+blog.jpg"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN1XkTmNkmL3-MkRYTvQ5D3vwRXJaB3opj10sSG3iLhwC7-PTrnVeMUUL5fcjtmP8BQeNfDgr_0RdOvjQ1kzUYLvtas3ZC0uSlMr6dB_mnrxgfgZPLW9lqN1jM8GYv2CUpz6UxVMNTWdU/s640/concepts+for+blog.jpg" width="451" /></a></span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I started with four concepts. The first followed, to the letter, the description I had been given, and then I started to play around with it. For <b>concept 2</b> I zoomed in for a more intimate illustration, and had Kaya looking over her shoulder, so we could see her face. For <b>concept 3</b> I sat her in the tree, telling a story to the <i>Listeners</i>, which form a large part of the story. (Books do not feature in the story, all the magic is through the oral telling of stories.). And for <b>concept 4</b> I turned concept 1 around so we could no longer see the city of Prima, but got a full view of Kaya's determination, framed by the full moon. </span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I sent these off, and concept 1 was chosen.</span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Step 4: The Cover Rough</i></b></span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">With a solid direction now in place, it was time to work on the draft of the cover.</span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlLv8-QRqZ4EeQ7hEW3MAlMxUZNGH2gvNlQi6oB4-rWSxbZremnPaFlerLu5uDF2cfIdiZ5iCbOcbZgnCEjEmkAtLzp92OV3VaEzVLpxY7RRhyOVm8J-4hQ5a91J8ilqxZzVNkfh9HngI/s1600/draft+for+blog.jpg"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlLv8-QRqZ4EeQ7hEW3MAlMxUZNGH2gvNlQi6oB4-rWSxbZremnPaFlerLu5uDF2cfIdiZ5iCbOcbZgnCEjEmkAtLzp92OV3VaEzVLpxY7RRhyOVm8J-4hQ5a91J8ilqxZzVNkfh9HngI/s640/draft+for+blog.jpg" width="480" /></a></span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Those pink lines are my crop and bleed lines. I always like to add a fair bit of buffer to illustrations that are going to be used as colours, in case the designer decides to reframe or zoom out a bit (or if it is decided to produce a hard-cover copy. I once had to paint in extra illustration on a watercolour cover illustration when it was suddenly decided to produce a hardback book... never again!). So the internal line is the crop line (the dimensions of the cover) and the outer line is a generous bleed allowance. And after that, it's all buffer. In theory, only the portion of the illustration within the internal line would be seen on the final product. </span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The placeholder text is a bit ugly - working in Procreate, the text tools are rather basic, so I just put in some rough text to indicate where it would fit.</span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The city of Prima was complicated, so I worked on that in another Procreate document (partly because it's easier that way, and partly so I didn't have to worry about layer limits. As I work at 400dpi (in case the designer decides to zoom <i>in</i>) I had a 15-layer limit. </span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOopQp9AU8B0uXpUuHPNZ6E3bZlsLQwN_wv0pUPHpfsOQccrFxBauqBYRc-OOomitXRilB4DSXOwRHjoiubdd-ESK75R5zd0qbziJ1Qd5wtvWbHV6Ggv-c-WpRxadQ5Z111WdxZ4qVfqE/s1600/Prima+for+blog.jpg"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOopQp9AU8B0uXpUuHPNZ6E3bZlsLQwN_wv0pUPHpfsOQccrFxBauqBYRc-OOomitXRilB4DSXOwRHjoiubdd-ESK75R5zd0qbziJ1Qd5wtvWbHV6Ggv-c-WpRxadQ5Z111WdxZ4qVfqE/s400/Prima+for+blog.jpg" width="367" /></a></span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">When I'd finished the rough, I did a quick colour study, and sent it off. You'll see here I had taken the image into Photoshop and done some better text. At this point, my suggestion was to give the appearance of embellished drop-capitals with stars (as it had been pointed out the really traditional drop capitals were a bit anachronistic for a story without books.)</span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXHFvwYXaVVAcXvhv73NqazgRie1ht4_ARn34SBSeZwRomIMlSLPp4gXA8ieWKtSon23tMUZHgJOHv6IJUnrz0xAPfjqm0FtWKJd6OQ4z8Woc1D6F8wejL-So1QLnRYMusGaTzQdaCCW8/s1600/colour+study+for+blog.jpg"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXHFvwYXaVVAcXvhv73NqazgRie1ht4_ARn34SBSeZwRomIMlSLPp4gXA8ieWKtSon23tMUZHgJOHv6IJUnrz0xAPfjqm0FtWKJd6OQ4z8Woc1D6F8wejL-So1QLnRYMusGaTzQdaCCW8/s400/colour+study+for+blog.jpg" width="300" /></a></span><br />
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<b><i><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Step 5: The Final</span></i></b><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Apart from requesting that the <i>Listeners</i> be closer to Kaya, and that the font be less heavy, I was given the go-ahead to start the final. Yay!</span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW9qbInID4yKh5HLYjr3sdmj9pFLJXQG4tb79vPT6b6qY_tJG0Lm-N1msd-xHsphF5RLySduuEz9EVfljj7XFi2vQ-W3L6cZPh420XPsIHyVXFqI6ngbOuzMZVV4nvWt4eZbkIQXpPUv4/s1600/final+for+blog.jpg"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW9qbInID4yKh5HLYjr3sdmj9pFLJXQG4tb79vPT6b6qY_tJG0Lm-N1msd-xHsphF5RLySduuEz9EVfljj7XFi2vQ-W3L6cZPh420XPsIHyVXFqI6ngbOuzMZVV4nvWt4eZbkIQXpPUv4/s640/final+for+blog.jpg" width="460" /></a></span><div>
<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I also provided a number of font options, as I couldn't position the stars to embellish the capitals until I knew which font was being used. Here is a selection of the fonts I offered:</span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">(fonts used, clockwise from left: Alana, Cantoni, Memoriam, Harlean).</span><br />
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This is VERY sped-up. The original@from procreate was nearly ten minutes long, and I’ve reduced THAT down to just over thirty seconds. It would be handy if I could draw that fast (although I might get motion sick 🤣) 💜 . . . #kidlitart #kidlitartist #kidlitillustration #kidlitillustrator #bookcover #kidlitcover #middlegradecover #middlegradebooks #jollyfishpress #timelapseart #procreatetimelapse #process #fantasy #illustration #ipadart #timelapseillustration #artforkids #childrensillustrator #childrensillustration #illustratorsoninstagram #illustration</a></p> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0px 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A post shared by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/alene.art/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" target="_blank"> Alison Mutton, Illustrator</a> (@alene.art) on <time datetime="2020-10-27T14:06:40+00:00" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">Oct 27, 2020 at 7:06am PDT</time></p></div></blockquote> <script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>
<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">It was then decided that the designer would do the text, and the embellished capitals were ditched. These things happen, but I think it was rather a shame; who doesn't want to draw sparkles?</span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div>Alison Muttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006300629466038125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287462521271506714.post-35101925562790579452020-08-23T08:34:00.003+00:002020-08-23T08:34:37.501+00:00If I Fits, I Sits<p> Gracious, 202 has been a crazy year! I've actually been working fairly solidly, for which I am extremely grateful... but somehow this blog got lost. In an effort to prevent it from languishing completely, let's have a quick new post!</p><p>This is my latest Colour Collective post. If in doubt, draw a cat, I say! The colour was 'dark terracotta', which is not a favourite of mine, so I knew I wanted to make it pop with some nice clear blue. And the nasturtiums are in flower in our garden so I thought they'd be a nice addition. The rest of the foliage is shamelessly swiped from a current work project. I have been drawing a <i>lot</i> of leaves and jungle backgrounds so I just popped some of those in here to keep it speedy (I wanted a bit of illustration R&R with my Colour Collective, but I didn't want to spend too long because deadlines. This took 3, maybe 3.5 hours (hard to gauge when you were watching tv at the same time!)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje2hyphenhyphenLRq9MtPsH2IghDQ6j1113fCCxppMbLHrV9s00LUidX76xnBNgA7PbTjIaz4-XyFxwT-M9d2CF4F439RyHWnv5lWGhTVd-mWexsXpjbc9dOKs-f7QkVxcs8MYCdfnWoExNAIDrp74/s2048/Ef9kVz2UcAA5QX4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje2hyphenhyphenLRq9MtPsH2IghDQ6j1113fCCxppMbLHrV9s00LUidX76xnBNgA7PbTjIaz4-XyFxwT-M9d2CF4F439RyHWnv5lWGhTVd-mWexsXpjbc9dOKs-f7QkVxcs8MYCdfnWoExNAIDrp74/s640/Ef9kVz2UcAA5QX4.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I did this in Adobe Fresco, so there's a time-lapse. I posted it on Instagram, so I'll embed the post here. Click through to the second image to see it.</div><p><br /></p>
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font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">A post shared by Alison Mutton, Illustrator (@alene.art)</a> on <time datetime="2020-08-21T17:35:32+00:00" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">Aug 21, 2020 at 10:35am PDT</time></p></div></blockquote> <script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>Alison Muttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006300629466038125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287462521271506714.post-9942074419609851772020-03-05T07:55:00.000+00:002020-03-05T07:55:38.487+00:00Animal Alphabets: Birds<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recently completed the <i>Birds</i> round of Animal Alphabets over on Twitter. Twenty six weeks of birds, one for each letter of the alphabet - all done in Procreate on my iPad Pro. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Xolmis Dominicanus (or Black and White Monjita) - I was honoured to be asked to do this one ahead of time, for use by the Animal Alphabets team when they announced the bird for Z, the week before posting:</span></div>
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<br />Alison Muttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006300629466038125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287462521271506714.post-35476779205797983152020-03-05T07:48:00.000+00:002020-03-05T07:55:52.262+00:00Animal Alphabets: Sea Life<div style="text-align: center;">
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Alison Muttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006300629466038125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287462521271506714.post-59737405202790759732019-10-01T07:53:00.000+00:002019-10-01T07:53:46.783+00:00The Lost Stone of SkyCity<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Earlier this year I had the pleasure of illustrating the cover for HM Waugh's debut middle grade adventure, <i>The Lost Stone of SkyCity</i> with Fremantle Press. To celebrate the release of the book today, here's a little look at the process I went through.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And then, once that was signed off on, it was time to work on the final! Here's a progress animation:</span></div>
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Alison Muttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006300629466038125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287462521271506714.post-26657312938029910702019-09-20T08:23:00.000+00:002019-09-20T08:23:29.112+00:00Nevermoor<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'd been reading <i>Nevermoor</i>, by Jessica Townsend, which is rather like Harry Potter, only without Harry - and as I always found Harry pretty irritating, this suits me down to the ground. It's the sort of fantasy kidlit book that makes me want to draw <i>all</i> of it, so I've been doing a few sketches:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Suddenly that's what she was - a living tidal wave of rage and fear. She was <i>not</i> like him, she would <i>never be like him."</i></span></div>
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Alison Muttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006300629466038125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287462521271506714.post-10534149746583763322019-09-14T06:12:00.001+00:002019-09-14T06:12:41.807+00:00Building Practice #3<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">First, we have Knaresborough, in Yorkshire - there are the most amazing chequerboard buildings there. This one is Mother Shipton's Cave (although as I understand it the cave is some walk away, I think this is where you bought tickets. We were just stopping off on our way through, so we didn't investigate the cave)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thirdly, Micklegate Bar, York. This was just down the road from our hotel, and I walked this small section of the York Wall several times. I also did the whole Wall walk with my mother. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Next, Chawton, in Hampshire. This is the village where Jane Austen spent the last years of her life. This little set of cottages is on the short walk between Chawton Cottage, where she lived with her sister and mother, and Chawton House, where her brother lived. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This quick piece is based on a photo I took in Clifford's Tower, York. My photo did not feature a cat, of course, but I thought it needed one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And finally, (in this set) we have Kynance Mews in Kensington, London, which I for some reason forgot to label. This is what happens when you throw things together when you really should be going to bed...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I started with the Hartley Mauditt church in Hampshire. Such a cute church, it's all that's left of the village of Hartley Mauditt (and fortunately it had a sign, so I knew where it was!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I hadn't <i>planned</i> on doing two churches in a row, but my father asked me to sketch our friends' church, St Mary Magdalene at West Tisted. This is a flint church, so very different from the one at Hartley Mauditt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Next, I chose an amazing building somewhere in Hampshire. So many levels!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After that, I thought it was time for a thatched cottage. We saw a lot of them in Hampshire, but this one is in Godshill, Isle of Wight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And finally (for this post) a 15th century farmhouse. At the time of sketching, I didn't know where this was, hence the label reading only 'Hampshire', but when I posted it on Instagram someone very kindly told me it was Goleigh Manor in Prior's Dean. The wonders of social media!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've actually been having a lot more fun with these than I thought I would! And as I have a <i>lot</i> of material in our holiday photos, I plan to continue. The aim is to be able to draw interesting and realistic houses from my imagination, eventually... but it's fun to make use of the holiday photos!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Adobe Photoshop CC2018 on a Wacom Mobile Studio Pro</span>Alison Muttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006300629466038125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287462521271506714.post-16153008409522417492019-09-14T06:11:00.000+00:002019-09-14T06:11:39.960+00:00Practicing BuildingsI like to draw people and animals, and find perspective and buildings more difficult, so naturally I draw less of them. It's normal to have some things you like to draw better than others... but I really should practice the other things more! In that spirit, I thought I would do a series of sketches from some of our holiday photos.<br />
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Starting off easy, with wonky old buildings where the lines don't have to be straight <i>anyway</i>:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When Colour Collective rolls around and I have no time (and also a massive headache), birds are always a good subject matter. For the 'Opera Rose' prompt I chose a pink-headed fruit dove, endemic to Indonesia. Birds have such amazing colouring!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This took about an hour and a half, although that was longer than necessary as my tablet froze and ate my last save (I'm positive I had saved more recently, my my Wacom <i>does</i> like to eat saves. You think you're safe and saved up until five minutes ago, but no, turns out Photoshop is going to recover the file as it was 40 minutes ago...)</span></div>
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Alison Muttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006300629466038125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287462521271506714.post-59648075127030002792019-05-26T06:20:00.000+00:002019-05-26T06:20:03.980+00:00Serenity<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This year Colour Collective is recycling favourite old colours from previous years. A lot of the time I have no idea what I drew for any specific colour, but I <i>did</i> remember my illustration for 'Serenity'. <a href="http://alene-art.blogspot.com/2016/03/bath-time.html">It was two Indian girls bathing a baby elephant at dusk</a>, done almost exactly three years ago. It makes me cringe now, as old art has a habit of doing, and I briefly considered reworking it... until I realised that people with as many projects and deadlines on the go as me do not have that kind of luxury. So I kept the baby elephant and ditched everything else. Gosh, my work has got simpler!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I threw this together very quickly, it probably took less than an hour, and it needs more work, really, but for the time I had, it is enough. I do like my little elephant, and it was a lovely peaceful scene to work on while I myself was not feeling at all peaceful with everything I had to do! I try to carve out time to do both Colour Collective and Animal Alphabets each week, with a time limit of an hour, because it's important to do some drawing that isn't work-related, just for mental health (if nothing else, it doesn't have to be perfect!), and it keeps my social media from completely atrophying while I work on things I can't share. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Adobe Photoshop CC2019 on a Wacom Mobile Studio Pro 13"</span></div>
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Alison Muttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006300629466038125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287462521271506714.post-3602194635524588382019-05-12T07:08:00.002+00:002019-05-12T07:08:56.697+00:00Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo...<div style="text-align: center;">
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Alison Muttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006300629466038125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287462521271506714.post-86282460644920362912019-05-12T07:08:00.001+00:002019-05-12T07:08:28.324+00:00Hummingbird<div style="text-align: center;">
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Alison Muttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006300629466038125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287462521271506714.post-9997254432804274902019-05-12T07:08:00.000+00:002019-05-12T07:08:11.789+00:00Budgies and Brahma Hens<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And a very grumpy Brahma hen, referenced from my book 'Extra Extraordinary Chickens' (Green-Armytage) </span></div>
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Alison Muttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006300629466038125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287462521271506714.post-44020049965861601032019-03-30T11:00:00.000+00:002019-03-30T11:00:36.940+00:00Aqua Dog Book Launch<div style="text-align: center;">
I recently worked on a lovely picture book, <i>Aqua Dog</i>, by <a href="https://www.lisavanderwielen.com/">Lisa Van Der Wielen</a>. Lisa contacted me to do the illustrations last year, and I loved bringing cheeky, determined Aqua to life, and surrounding him with the stark beauty of the Western Australian Wheatbelt. </div>
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Here is the book trailer:</div>
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The book is available in paperback, and also a very lovely hardback, through Amazon. <a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/Aqua-Dog-Lisa-Van-Wielen/dp/0987639706/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=aqua+dog&qid=1553940943&s=gateway&sr=8-2">Click here to purchase.</a></div>
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Lisa launched <i>Aqua Dog</i> on the 28th March, and invited me to come along. It was lovely to meet her - we had not previously met in person, as with many of my clients all our correspondence was through email - and she did a lovely job putting the launch together.</div>
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Lisa's sister-in-law had made the amazing Aqua Dog plush - look at him, so hairy, so cute!</div>
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There were activities for the kids - colouring pages, decorating paper-cut Aquas and muddle paw print stamping:</div>
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I did some live drawing while Lisa read the story. He came out a bit wonky, but no one seemed to mind.</div>
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Thanks Lisa for putting together such a nice launch, and for trusting me to bring your picture book vision to life!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've been practicing birds, and so here is a toucan!</span></div>
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Alison Muttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006300629466038125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287462521271506714.post-17758025437962349422019-03-10T06:02:00.000+00:002019-03-10T06:02:08.741+00:00Baby Cards!<div style="text-align: center;">
I always like to do special hand painted cards for babies - such a special occasion, it warrants a bit more effort on my part! - and in February we had TWO babies arrive, just over 24 hours apart, so I got out my paints and made these two cards:</div>
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The first card was for my friend Tilly, and baby number 2, a daughter - she now has a son and a daughter, plus a husband and two dogs, so they're a perfect little family!</div>
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I'd bought the baby presents well ahead of time, just before Christmas - our local toyshop was closing down (nooo!) so we went in and grabbed some bargains - and I'd unintentionally gone all owl-themed. So I thought I'd go for broke and put an owl on the card as well:</div>
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The second card was for my eldest cousin Claire, and her third daughter, who arrived the next day. I stuck with flowers for this card. Roses are quick to draw, and I had such a lot of work on I didn't want to be spending ages working on this:</div>
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Both cards took about 45 minutes and were done in Winsor and Newton watercolours, Pentel Brush Pens, Copic Multiliners, Kuretake Touch of Stellar pens and some metallic watercolours with no visible brand, that I bought at a lovely art shop in Singapore.</div>
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<b>Head below the cut</b> for time-lapse video of me painting both cards, along with some sketches and a closer look at the shimmery metallic paints that aren't really visible in the above photos!</div>
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I filmed the painting of both cards and posted the videos to Instagram. You'll need to click through to watch the videos and see the shimmer:</div>
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And here are the initial sketches I did. For my friend's card I used Procreate on my father's iPad Pro - I had borrowed it because I knew I would be waiting at the chiropractor and wanted to make the most effective use of my time without lugging around my huge tablet. It took a little more time than planned because I couldn't quite make up my mind what I wanted it to look like. And the other sketch I did in Photoshop on my Wacom Mobile Studio.</div>
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<br />Alison Muttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006300629466038125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287462521271506714.post-1557892234616650862019-03-10T05:40:00.000+00:002019-03-10T05:40:13.257+00:00Robin HoodLast year I did a few Robin Hood themed illustrations for Colour Collective, while the colours miraculously worked with the theme. I don't know how that happened! Where was the hot pink to throw a spanner in my works?<br />
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While we were in the UK, I (briefly) saw a weasel. I was amazed by how small it was, I'd always thought they were bigger. So naturally I had to draw one, and I thought Robin Hood would make an ideal weasel. He's always getting out of sticky situations. And the Colour Collective colour was 'Lincoln Green'. Meant to be!<br />
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Then 'Scheveningen Yellow Light' was the next colour, and I thought Maid Marian, with her original association with May Day, should be frolicking amongst the daffodils. We saw a lot of daffodils on holiday.<br />
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And then the next colour was 'Seashell', which turned out to be the perfect colour for mushrooms. Friar Tuck seemed to me to be perfect as a mole. We didn't see any moles on holiday (I don't think it's usual to see any!) but we <i>did</i> see some molehills.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is a forty-spotted pardalote, endangered and endemic to a small area of Tasmania. I hadn't heard of them, but I saw them on Gardening Australia and they were so cute. They also matched perfectly with Colour Collective's 'Turmeric' prompt, so I included it as a bonus CC as well. </span></div>
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A Tasmanian echidna. I saw one on <i>David Attenborough's Tasmania</i> and absolutely fell in love with it, so cute. I was filled with a desire to needle felt one, but I totally don't have felting time right now, so a quick sketch was the best I was going to get:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I thought it was about time I updated my post on the creation of a picture book, so here's a shiny new version for 2019. I'm going to be talking about the creation of <i>Alexander's Day and Other Fun Stuff</i>, by Beverley Knezevic, which was a private publication. It only had a small run, not intended for stores, but I approach all my picture book projects the same way, and give the same attention to private publications as I do to all my other work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After reading the manuscript, I started by planning out the whole book in thumbnail form, so I could see how it flowed from page to page. I mucked about with various ideas (I am not fond of thumbnailing) until I had this version, which I sent along to Beverley (in the original copy, there was text under each page, which I have removed for the purposes of this blog post.) I don't always colour my thumbnails, but in this instance I wanted to highlight the bright colours and plain backgrounds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Once Beverley had signed off on the thumbnails, (and happily for me she only wanted the most minor of changes) I moved on to the drafts. As I am often working on multiple projects at once, I colour code them so I can remember which is which. This book was blue, so all the draft lifework was done in blue. I just find it helps me keep the different stories and styles straight in my head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is the opening spread, which introduces Alexander. The room is based on his room, and every item on the floor is one he owns. Those red lines are there to remind me where the gutter (the middle of the spread) is (I don't want to draw anything important too close to this line, or it will get 'lost in the gutter' and where the edges of the pages are. When printing illustrations that go all the way to the edge of the page, I have to include 'bleed'. This makes sure there are no white edges when the pages are trimmed (sometimes the trimmer will slip a bit, so the illustrations need to be larger than the finished printed page) but I need to make sure nothing important is in that area, as it is intended to be chopped off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I keep my current projects in Adobe's Creative Cloud, and give clients the link to their project file so they can see my progress without my having to send a lot of emails. Less time emailing means more time working! This means that they are often faced with unfinished images, but has the benefit of meaning we can catch any little things that should be changed as I go. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Once I had done all the drafts, I roughly typeset the whole book, and sent a pdf to Beverley, that she could print out and staple together like a real book if she wanted. I always print out a dummy copy for myself, once everything is printed and you are actually turning the pages, you can really see issues and take steps to fix them before moving onto the finals. Here is a peek at this dummy:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If I'm working for a publisher, once the finals are signed off on that's me done, but for self-publishers I provide the typesetting as well. Fortunately I have a degree in Graphic Design! (less fortunately, this means I require the whole Adobe Creative Cloud Suite, and this costs a lot!) I typeset using Adobe inDesign, and export the files to whatever specifications are required. This book was printed by Blurb so I used their inDesign Plugin to export the files and upload them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For Colour Collective's 'Midnight Blue' prompt, I decided to work in more of my middle-grade style. I've been working hard on picture books, and wanted a bit of a change so I revisited <a href="http://alene-art.blogspot.com/2019/01/scbwi-draw-this-light.html">this little medieval girl</a> from an earlier illustration, simplified her a bit, and went to town with a two-colour palette and ink-like outlines. It's nice to have a bit of a change now and then, especially when I'm working hard, and I enjoy middle-grade illustration just as much as picture book illustration! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As you can see, I kept it simple, because I <i>am</i> working hard. Just enough background to suggest a medieval setting, and I was done in less than 2 hours. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She's simple, but I quite like her. Here's a little peek at the quick sketch I did for her, snaffled from my Instagram Story. Remember to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/alene.art/">follow me on IG</a> for lots of behind the scenes snaps!</span></div>
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Alison Muttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006300629466038125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287462521271506714.post-63144003450643754242019-02-03T09:39:00.000+00:002019-02-03T09:39:07.722+00:00Going Fishing<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I wasn't sure what to do with Colour Collective's 'Hooker Green' prompt, so I decided to rather boringly use it as foliage, and combined my CC with another building practice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is based on a photo I took in Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire. We had been there before, but wanted to go back - a train ride from York to Scarborough, and then a bus to Robin Hood's Bay, but we made it! It was a fairly grey day, with some drizzle, but it made for some very spectacular photos. I was playing around with one of the art filters on my camera, and took two shots of most things - one on normal camera mode, and a second with a filter, which really took advantage of the overcast sky.</span></div>
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Alison Muttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006300629466038125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287462521271506714.post-16655588082042911342019-01-27T08:23:00.000+00:002019-01-27T08:23:29.958+00:00Lovebirds<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'Living Coral' is the Pantone Colour of the Year for 2019, and it was naturally also an early entry in the Colour Collective. It's such a vibrant colour, a favourite of mine anyway, and it was <i>really tempting</i> to do a detailed tropical underwater scene with lots of coral and fish and bubbles. But I had to be sensible; I'm busy, with two books on the go, and I'm running a bit behind because I was hideously sick with a sinus infection for a week. So detailed scenes were out of the question, I could only schedule in 1 hour for my Colour Collective - so I defaulted to birds. They're such nice, simple shapes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I chose lovebirds because a) they're cute and b) there was lots of opportunity to tone down the coral with green. It's summer here, I quite like to work with cool colours! And people seemed to like them, which was nice! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And they were a big improvement on my previous week's effort (while sick with the aforementioned sinus infection). I'd dragged myself out of bed and thought I'd tentatively try doing a Colour Collective (tea green) to see if I was well enough to get back to work. I wasn't - a define lack of energy and purpose in my linework and colouring! I'll have to return to these ringneck parrots some other time and do them more justice. At the time, however, I just went back to bed. There was no point trying to do work if I was only going to have to redo it later! It's amazing how much being unwell can affect your drawing!</span></div>
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Alison Muttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006300629466038125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287462521271506714.post-11637159508309109162019-01-27T08:08:00.000+00:002019-01-27T08:08:24.497+00:00Building Practice #1<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I thought I really should practice drawing buildings, which have never been my strongest subject. So, I thought, a good way to do this would be to take some interesting buildings that I photographed on holiday, and sketch them, starting with really old buildings, where wonky lines are practically <i>required</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I started out doing black and white sketches, and then moved to colour. But for this post, I'm going to compile just the black and white ones:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Somewhere in Hampshire. We spent a lot of time driving around with our friends, and Hampshire has a lot of winding roads (with no names!) so sometimes I have photographs but absolutely <i>no</i> idea of where they are. Other times, of course, I know exactly where things are, such as this 16th century hearth passage house, which is opposite the square in Petersfield:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This rambling cottage is opposite St Andrews Church in Farnham, Surrey. We were there on our last day in Hampshire, to hear our friend sing in a choir concert in the church. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And this little place is on North Street in York. York is fabulous for wandering down roads and finding ancient buildings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All of these were done on a Wacom Mobile Studio Pro, using Adobe Photoshop CC2018, and Kyle Webster's 'sketch pencil rough' brush. </span></div>
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