Adelia: in tree

I did this piece off of a sketch I did last night. It really doesn't have anything to do with my book - but I liked the piece enough to finish it off by painting it.

Adelia: In Tree

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Adelia Sketch: on tree

I did this sketch thinking of those little birds that hang off the side of a tree...and I tried to imagine how Adelia would look...I think it still turned into a cute drawing....so I'm posting it here...

Adelia Sketch: on tree

Adelia sketch: surfing

I didn't have access to my computer last night - so I put my book drawings aside (which I'm currently cleaning up in Adobe Illustrator) and I drew this. It really has nothing to do with my book - but I currently enjoy drawing Adelia so everything ends up with her in it...

Adelia Sketch: Surfing

Adelia: Walking away from bed

I've done another one - This took me all day to complete - mostly I was frustrated at how hard it was to draw the bed looking cartoony enough. I was at odds with making the perspective correct that my first few attempts ended up looking like boxes (or like the futon I used to sleep on...very hard)...I decided to paint this the same way I did my last one - using Adobe Photoshop. I have to say that I quite enjoyed it...and even though the bed ended up looking like a giant candy cane (a color I might change, as it distracts from the balloon), I think it turned out quite well. As with before, I did a sketch which I scanned into my computer - cleaned up my lines (and corrected my perspective mistakes) with Adobe Illustrator - and then transfered my lines at 300 dpi into Photoshop where I painted it.

Adelia: walking away from bed

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Adelia: Walking Away From Bed

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Adelia: going sledding

This is actually a drawing that will end up in the book. I might change the hands a bit - but it will look pretty much like this. I've decided to do all my drawings in illustrator so I could have really nice clean lines. I liked this one enough that I had to color it - I started off thinking of doing it as solid colors (without any shadowing) but the more I worked on it, the more I wanted to color it stronger. All in all it took me 20 minutes to clean up my original drawing in Illustrator and then another 2 hours to color it in photoshop.

Adelia - Going Sledding

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Adelia: scary stories

This drawing doesn't fit into the book I'm currently creating - but I was sitting in the living room while my girlfriend watched Dr. 90210...I was inspired by the horrors of cosmetic surgery to draw this pic...which I then dropped into illustrator and cleaned up (and colored).

Adelia: telling scary stories

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Adelia: Telling Scary Stories

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Adelia: More sketches

These are just some of the sketches I did of Adelia over the weekend. Something might come out of them but mostly they were just fun little drawings.

Adelia: sketches

I've really gotten into this character. I've been doing a ton of research on how one goes about publishing a childrens book. I'm going about it both ways (getting it published through the regular channels - so I'm in the process of making a 'dummy' book - and the second way is to self publish. I'm going to finish all of the drawings and then paint and print them. I've even started thinking up ideas for my next book!...and yes...it too stars Adelia the Adelie Penguin)

Here is a sketch! This might end up as a pic in the book, but probably just a little idea and nothing more...

Adelia: in snow - sketch

Adelia: riding on the sled

Here's the latest piece I did. I was also reworking the "Adelia: Painter" one, but ran out of time to finish it (I'll probably have it done by tomorrow). This one has Adelia and her balloon sledding down a hill. I'm currently working on the drawing that shows what happened once they get to the bottom...we'll see...

Adelia: Sledding

Adelia the Painter

I finished this last night - but wasn't terribly happy with it. I think I need to redraw it and then repaint it - make bits of it messier and fix some proportion problems I didn't see until I was transfering it from my rough to the watercolor paper. Since I had already 'wasted' the watercolor paper by having my pencil lines down already, I figured I'd better paint it (just in case it could be saved with paint...hide my mistakes and such)....but to no avail...it look okay, but it could be better...and it will be - once I redraw and repaint it.

Adelia: The Painter - first attempt