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FemJesse
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Thanks Lee! I'm trying to keep everyone in the loop about whats going on as far as my projects go. The author of this book is around my age, so rest assured there will be some pop culture references, and definitely little inside things for adults to enjoy. This is the concept for the children. Sarah really loved how the family dynamic came out. The next step for me will be color selection and then storyboarding. Here is the family all put together. I'm really happy with the way they came out and the author is as well.
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Crash_7
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Those are great. Personally, I think the beard makes the dad look more like a granddad, though.
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Erdrik
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I thought hippy when I saw the goatee.
Its probly the lack of color. *hint hint*
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FemJesse
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*bump* Sketch for the onlookers on the cover “Did you see their claws?” Mr. Bear asked. “What about the neck on her? I mean, honestly!” Mrs. Giraffe said. “And those wings! Scandalous!” Mrs. Bird chimed in. Mr. Raccoon shook his head. “There goes the neighborhood.” content property of Sarah "The Beef" Leboeuf and Jessica "FemJesse" Tommassello
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Bend-err
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Great designs for the kid's books, Jesse.
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Ralph Snart
Agent Provocateur
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To my non-artistic eye, all I can say is, "Everything looks great, FJ. I wouldn't change a thing."
and I really mean that.
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FemJesse
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« Reply #419 on: 08-14-2010 20:41 »
« Last Edit on: 08-14-2010 22:38 »
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I would suggest lightening up the red hair(on both the daughter and father) to be more of a dirty orange... If I were involved in this project at all. ... but Im not. so... yea...
Close to Sarah and me's actual solution, we decided to use the orangey yellow of the father's horns! As a nod to your ealier grandparents suggestion, we figured that it would make sense if one of the mother's parents were yellow so thats why she would have yellow spots and carry the yellow scales gene as seen in the son. The spots of yellow in the mother allude to the fact that she does carry those genes, and the fact that her son has her purple hair as well ties it all together. So the overall intent was to reverse the roles to give the son more of the mother's features and the daughter more of the father's. I presume the red and purple hair on Dad and Mom are your Futurama nod, FJ?
Cute how both Dad and Daughter are waving.
Thank you and it is indeed the intent I couldn't make the hair on the father too orange without too much similarity to a certain Koopa King. Originally the mother was waving too, but it was causing some unsightly tangents so I removed the waving hand. I've started detailing the cover image and even come up with the series logo. Edit: You can see I've finished shading and detail on the mom and dad and started on the son. I'm also trying to come up with some patterns to unify branding.
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Crash_7
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Excellent. Seeing the beard colored in now, it looks better to me. In the first drawing, not colored, I thought he had a white beard.
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Erdrik
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I like how its turning out. I gotta say the daughters hair color pops out much better than before, what with how it contrasts with her skin color. Nice grandparents tie in, too. Will that be mentioned in the book, or just suggested via the picture? Just curious, 'cuase I always felt media in general underestimates the potential intellect of children. Specificly how challanging them helps them gain intellect.
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Ralph Snart
Agent Provocateur
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"Another day older, And deeper in debt."
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Crash_7
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Happy birthday, Jess. Be careful, though. Keep having those and you'll catch up with me.
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Bend-err
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Neat, better late than never. Congrats!
Btw, that book cover looks good.
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Bend-err
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Congrats on the book, Jesse. It's a great cover.
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FemJesse
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Only thing I would nitpick is possibly the poster in the background might not be in kilter/parallel with the ... erkh damn my vocabulary again - vanishing point(?) Otherwise, pretty damn flawless imo!
Yea that kind of thing I'm actually going to design separately then skew when I put it on there, I just wanted something placeholder to show the author. I also have placeholder circles for the mayoral seal and the coffee shop logo... The mayor is heavily inspired by Tortimer from Animal Crossing. I like the idea that a turtle lives long and is wiser, plus our small town community in the book is called "Turtle Hill" so we thought it would be cute for a Turtle to be the mayor.
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FemJesse
Liquid Emperor
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Some more paid work Waiting on publisher approval on this one. The illustration was approved, but not the final layout. I'm having a really fun time doing these, and the foundation has a few more books lined up - but they are running low on cash and need more donations for the publishing wishes. As it stands I "donated" about 6 hours so far on this project. (The illustration was very time consuming) The cloning book is good to go, I just checked the proof copy today and it came out perfectly as far as design/layout and the cover are concerned. I'm waiting to hear back whether this will be the "final final" as I'm hearing many things from different people concerning the status of it. But if its ok'd it should be on Amazon in a few days, making it my first designed large format novel.
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