It rained all weekend, so I spent some time with a set of Hero watercolor pencils that I have and made myself a color chart. See above. My first set of watercolor pencils was by Derwent, and it had 6 colors. It was what I could afford at the time, and they were pretty good. But this Hero set that I have has 72 watercolor pencils, and they cost about the same as a Derwent or Prismacolor 12-pack or 24-pack….
I don’t think I ever mentioned it on this blog, but in January of this year I published a coloring book called Patterns: A Coloring Book. If you’re into coloring for stress relief, go buy it, try it out, and let me know what you think. I created it all from scratch on Illustrator. Share this post:
Seducing the Hermit was published back in 2007. The author is Suz deMello, with whom I’ve worked before, and bless her heart—she specifically requests my cartoon covers, AND she is one of the very few whose books actually justify the illustration style. The last time I worked with Suz was for the cover The Wilder Brother, and we went through so many drafts doing that cover that I decided to skip all the potential communication problems and read the manuscript…
Just dropping in for a quick note. After I posted one of my latest cover work onto my Facebook page, my friend and fellow cover artist Valerie Tibbs asked me to guest blog at International Heat. So, today I’m blogging about a book cover I designed for Kimberly D. Woods’ Dark Angel. You can find it here. Share this post:
Long, long ago, I “liked” a page called Drawing Club on Facebook, and today, Drawing Club posted a link to a page of 3D animated GIFs made with ballpoint pen drawings. At the bottom of the page, a graphic designer named Sydnee Davidson made a guess that it was made with the Liquify tool in Photoshop. My immediate response? No way. I know my Photoshop. That’s Distort and Displace. So I set out to prove to myself that I was…