going to participate in this summer. It is sponsored by Lilla Rogers Studio. This is
an illustration agency that represents artists internationally. If you do not know about
Lilla Rogers, check out her wonderfully creative site. http://lillarogers.com/
Finding this contest is a God-send I think. I have been stumbling about going to
conferences and working on little bits of this and that. Having a tough time deciding
what I should send/finish/focus on right now. Lilla Rogers Studio represents
artists doing illustration for many products including children's books. I do feel a bit
like I am putting my books on the back burner a bit. I have no idea what
exactly the project for the contest entails, but I am extremely excited.
So, I wanted to show you all a sample of what kind of sketching I have been doing.
I am trying to invoke (?) what this project will be...I am getting that perhaps maybe there
will be some print/pattern/textile design requested...so I am going back to the way I
used to sketch. Little swatches of prints...starting with pencil. I play around with
color, doing little palettes. (When you find a pencil palette you like, put a rubber band
around, I found out the hard way with having so many pencils not to put them back.)
I like to color with watercolor pencils too, and then use my Pentel water fillable brush
(best tool ever).
You can kind of see the way my crazy mind works here. I started with the girls. Then I picked up
my Non-Flowering Plants book and got those spikey mushrooms, that were realistic, but morphed into the cuteness in the middle of the page. I also got the moss/seed heads ideas from this book. I drew the eyeball type print inspired by the book/the idea of eyeballs looking at the girls, then along came the cartoon boy. Somehow this will all make sense someday. Until then, maybe in some way it can
help you, or at least make you smile:>
