Book design
Blog posts about book design. Art in progress, creative process, design, layout, illustration, writing, printing. Everything that goes into making books.
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Throwback Thursday! Communication Breakdown
June 24, 2021 | BlogThrowback Thursday to the first full page comic I created, called Communication Breakdown.
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Comic Panel of Yesteryear
March 25, 2021 | BlogThis is a panel from a very old comic. I was trying to write a picture book at the time. Someone, somewhere on the net, described creating comics to help flesh out characters, or something, so I thought I’d give it a try. The story ended up being very different from this, and the character, […]
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It’s a Rabbit Hole
March 19, 2021 | BlogThe real danger of revisiting old artwork, is that your definition of where the acceptable finish line is has no doubt moved in the time since you created the work. I really just want to adjust a few colours, and add minor design elements, and it’s really hard not to fall into a rabbit hole […]
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Revisiting
March 9, 2021 | BlogI want to print a book I made a couple years ago, but I can’t help revisiting a few of the illustrations first. Someone stole her wrench? WHAT?!
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Wrenched Update – Design Milestone Reached
May 26, 2017 | BlogThis week I completed paint on the 24 story pages of the picture book. That’s an important milestone for the project, but no time to celebrate. There’s still a lot of work to do!
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Designing Pictures
May 19, 2017 | BlogIn general the entire process for designing illustrations turns out to be not much different from any other design project. And it really is design.
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Storyboarding for picture books and cats
May 5, 2017 | BlogYou’ve probably heard of storyboards used in movie production. They’re also a useful and common tool for planning all manner of books, not just picture books.
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Adventures in writing
April 27, 2017 | BlogI need personal design projects to keep me balanced. I wanted something more substantial, so I decided to create a picture book.