What I Painted This Afternoon
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…using the standard PaperMate #2 pencil and a paper stump I bought not too long ago. I’ve never used a paper stump before, but I like it! Share this post:
Something’s been weighing on my mind for a little while now. With the steady work I’ve been getting, I hadn’t really given it a thought until recently, and perhaps maybe I should. I mean, should I kiss my dream of illustrating children’s books goodbye? Because with cover work like these— —I don’t think any publisher of children’s books would seriously consider me. Not that I’d want to give up doing the covers I’ve been doing; I love the work that…
I didn’t have any free time to play around, so this wasn’t done for fun (though it was!). This was actually for an ebook cover, one of four I worked on this weekend, and I liked it so much that I turned it on its side and decided to post it. About ten stock photos were butchered to make this, and the Photoshop file with all its layers intact is almost 200MB. I have another image three times the width…
I added the shadow in Photoshop because I couldn’t leave it well enough alone. Share this post: