Little back story. My best friend Qimmah and I began this idea last year of making a series of books; we have a few ideas but this one story stuck out. There won’t be any information about the story or the characters (besides the teaser image above) until we’re ready to launch. In its place I will talk about the progress and what goes on during this project.
Spent the day working on the main character’s design and color way. After a couple of hours fighting with the style of the images I finally settled on this vector based style, with gradients and textures. Q and I also debated distinct character attributes over G-chat, which turned out to be very fruitful. I think the final product will come out pretty nice and most people will like it.
It took me a long time to come to the decision on that we chose as originally Q wanted a more traditional watercolor paint style. But as everyone knows, painting is my kryptonite. As long as I’ve tried to, I have yet to grasp a style in paint that I was happy with. So for a few months last year I struggled trying to paint this book to no avail. It wasn’t until today that I forced myself to stop trying something that was foreign and do something that made sense and was familiar. With that decided I can now take the next step in designing my fourth children’s book.
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