Texture Mexture

News Papah...

I'm going to print this out and work over it, to make it look more archaic...it's not exactly what I had in mind, I need to play a lot more with the fonts and may resort to hand lettering. I have gathered up a small folder of reference of period Newspaper Headers so I have some ideas...this isn't it yet.
Yep rough stuff!

The article is about the story surrounding the legend Miranda Tilford.

Miranda

City Seal

The Raine Family

click to see it a tad bigger

Poster- rough idea

There are a lot of posters, signs, newspaper clippings that are in the book.

The Weavers

More sketches for the book!


These are really messy and I'm prolly the only one who can understand what the hell is going on here. The color sketch  came first,  the black and white i'm trying to refine the idea a bit. Actually from this point forward I will make B&W sketches before color like this, I read about others doing this and I really think it's a great exercise in figuring out contrast and focusing more on shapes and composition...gettting that all solidified before throwing in the color. (Not that I ever just...throw color on something!) I


This is in like a ...courtyard like place...I'm not sure, its outside and the girls on the second level are on a wooden like structure. They are all weaving nets, except for the two ladies in the right hand corner. One is telling a joke or story of some sort and the girl is listening, which the lady in the far left is working quietly. Winslow Homer is a big inspiration for these sea ladies, he did a series of images of women fixing nets, carrying baskets and roughing the seas, they are soooo beautiful. I will post more about him and examples soon!!

Sea Bingo!

Bingo card I made for an art summer program I'm teaching themed: The Seven Seas

Rainy ID

Dummy Book: Diving into Rainetown

I'm now diving into the dummy book (mock book for planning) for Rainetown. The next few weeks I will be working on pencil drawings for the layout. I have about 5 illustrations so far that are close to being done, which I will send to blurb along with the drawings to get a print out of the dummy book. These fully painted images will help me see what the colors might look like. I always got the impression that blue was a bit of a deviant color when it comes to printing so this should be interesting. Rainetown is SUCH a blue book. heh heh

Rough Cover ideas:(click to enlarge)


This idea has been canned...though I might use the cliffs and ships for something else.


The back cover is an illustration of a girl looking out at a crow, with pink string snarled in the tree. Front cover you see the crow again flying with the string. I'm thinking of having the crow gathering things (maybe always string) for a nest, being a continuing image throughout the book.

Below: Rough title page



Miranda- (rough sketch) A famous resident of Rainetown. She was blind and weaved very fine nets (there is one draped around her shoulders and is wearing a netting like necklace with shells attached)It is believed that she weaved them from her hair. Also, according to legend, she saved the life of prominent Rainetown portrait painter Jonathan Boslem. (who painted this portrait of her) The story brought fame to Rainetown, and the village became known for net weaving.Miranda also started the trend of Rainetown ladies wearing blue striped clothing..something else the city is known for.