dimanche 19 novembre 2006

Wax Crayon Faces Illustrations for a Children's Book I haven't been uploading any "artwork" recently... so here are a few examples from several sheets of basic ideas I had for a children's book which has been written... but needs re-illustrating. I have managed to simplify the images down to five or six colours... and a maximum of twenty marks on the paper. For example, the boy's eyes are two marks, his hair accounts for eight, lips two, specs three or four, nose one or two, eyebrows two... nothing else is required to add to the expressions... no profile outline, no chin, no ears... What I discovered, whilst simplifying them, was the variety of expressions and emotions that could be created with just a slight twist of the wax crayon, especially when drawing against the natural flow my hand was taking. Maybe they're not illustration material for commercial children's books... but I'm continuing to explore this theme. 3:32:19 PM    comment []