The following pieces are for the Bologna Children's Book Fair 2013.
They are based on The Wild Swans, the fairytale by Hans Christian
Andersen. I picked this story to illustrate as I wanted a fairytale that
is not too well-known. After trying a few different techniques and
materials, I settled on simple black and white pencil drawings, not
unlike what I did for The Bloody Chamber.
Right, I had painted a really simple picture with just brush and ink and I decided to scan it in and see what I can do with Photoshop. I have been learning a lot through lynda.com videos and thought maybe I could practice some of the techniques I learned (before they all go poof in a month's time). So this is the brush painting I started of with this:
I loved the wolf I created in my previous post so much that I created another one. Trying to imbue more "character" into my characters.
