I had the most fun opportunity to illustrate a children’s book for a college student – without giving everything away, I’m sure my illustrations are a big hint to the storyline!
I started doodling late one night, refined my doodles into line drawings, then colored them in using colored pencil on a really smooth illustration paper – scanned them in and further enhanced them for print using Paint Shop Pro. I’m so tickled with the results, I just had to share.
Which little fishy is your favorite?
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Woah, sorry about that! I’m a dork! :giggle:
Whoa! These are so cool. I think I like the yellow one best! I could never draw anything like this!
I’m really drawn to the blue one, though the brown one with the fu man chu mustache is very, very good.
i think i prefer the pink and white one. these are adorable!! :cyclops:
I like the funky seahorse and the fu manchu! :winking:
I like the trumpet fishy, Oh, and I can see your buttons at the top better too! Hugs, clara
I love the yellow one with the big eyes! The one with the fu man chu mustache is cool, too. Ooooh! I know someone who could illustrate one of my stories…if I ever decide to get them published. Not the junk on my blog…the stories I tell. HEY! I want some more of those little faces on my comment box! Will you share what plug-in that is?
What? You’re making me pick?
If these were stuffed animals — about the size of Beanie Babies — I’d buy them all. And not let the kids have them.
Can’t wait to see the book!
I love them all and I seem to remember a similar request made to a certain artist… 😉
I thought all of them were cute, what a bunch of characters!
They’re so fun! I love the blue one with the punky “hair”.
Woohoo! Thanks everybody! I’m glad you enjoyed them. I’m not really comfortable calling myself a book illustrator – yet, anyway – the individual simple drawings seemed like something I could do without feeling overwhelmed. This project was a lot about putting my big toe into that ocean and just testing the waters. 😉
Beanie fish would be really cool! Maybe someone will find me and offer me a bajillion dollars to produce them as beanies.
:beret:
Clara: Thank you for noticing the buttons!
Shelly: My smilies are a custom set that I put together for myself using the more smilies plugin, which I believe you have installed. You may be able to find more fun sets through the plugin author. 🙂
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I did a lot of work to finish up the design early yesterday morning. The comments finally have their style, and I like how you guys are all highlighted at the top of your comments. It’s special. 🙂
How awesome, and congrats! 😀 Me loves the bottom right orange and red fishie most.
(The new comment boxes look great as well btw, love the shine.)
The Trumpet Fish, of course…
xo
LBC
How fun! They are all so cute! I’ll have to show my daughter to see which one is her favorite. For me the sunny yellow one, and the one with the very cool mustache.
They are all so fun and original!
Funny, I just saw these today. ; )
These are so cool!! Love the yellow one with the big eyes. And I’m partial to seahorses too… :pleasantry:
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