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This is a sketch I did of the power lines in the alley behind my house. It's one of the projects I started on last spring before I started working on the kids book and stopped having time for anything else. It's not finished yet. I want to turn it into a gig poster for my husband's band.
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This sketch would make a great poster just as is as far as I'm concerned! I can really see the text just inserted into the spaces between lines (ala. Saul Bass - North by Northwest title seq.). I also love your other B&W metropolis sketches on the website...speaking of which the site worked fine on my mac at work (with it's out of date web bowser version) although I tried out paintedproblems.com and only the splash page/home page came up...not sure if that site is your concern though?! What was the deal with your book, who are painted problems, how did the gig come about, did you have direct contact with the author...(if you don't mind me being nosy...?). As always ta far the blog visit, the Penguin books were my illust. but their (design classic) cover design grid. Value your comment re piggy but think I am finally happy with her now...the beak has moved a bit closer to the edge of her head but is an angel fish plonked on her face :) !
Thanks Matt. I actually don't mind this drawing as is, but I have some other ideas I'd like to try with it as well.
I'm not sure why the painted problems website wouldn't be working. I was on it a week ago and it worked fine, but maybe they have to make changes to it or something. I'm not involved with that website, but it's selling the book I illustrated so I'd like it to be running smoothly.
Painted Problems is a book that was written by Ann Cooney. She wrote it to teach children about graffiti. She needed the printed books pretty quick and didn't have time to deal with a publishing house so she decided to self publish. She found my website randomly and hired me to do the drawings and the design of her book. She oversaw the whole process but let me do what ever I wanted. She was really easy to work with. I don't think she changed any of my sketches, she loved everything I showed her.
I think that covers all of your questions... Let me know if there's anything else.
Ta for the comprehensive reply :) It must have been gratifying to have been approached like that , and it really justifys the effort of putting together a site! I expect you must feel a bit in limbo after finishing such an involving project...or are you glad to finally be able to move onto new creative pastures..?! Like I said previously, really look forward to seeing the power lines poster et al. And very glad that you like the lighthouse pic, fairly satisfied with the direction on that one myself. Now back to my present problem of getting Magnus to look like he's yawning.
It was a very gratifying project. It was nice to just do my thing without having to try and create someone else's vision. She wrote the story and she left the art up to me. It is nice to be finished though. Because the time line was so short I did nothing but that book for 2.5-3 months. I didn't even see my friends. Never say never, but I don't think I'll take such a huge project on such a short time line in the future. It's exhausting and left me feeling completely burnt out. I do hope to do more children's books. It's nice for now to work on some of my own projects that have been set aside for months.
I must admit that I am a bit envious of the amount of effort you're putting into perfecting the visuals for your story. I had one month to finalize all of my sketches. I would have loved to have had more time to make everything just right.
love the silhouette of the tree. good shapes and good design = awesome poster!
Thanks so much! I've actually never drawn a tree like that before, but I like the way it turned out.
Do you have any contact info for Ann Cooney? I've long been a photographer of graff in Ottawa and Toronto - to both preserve and promote aerosol art as an art form. Would like to see what the book was like.
Mike
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