This is the one least served by the fuzzy pencil style. Since it doesn't have a single, strong subject I feel like it should have detail, so the reader can examine it and see things he/she missed earlier. The composition is still nice---I just wish I could see more of it.
This sounds like a negative comment, but this is contrasted against the high expectations set by the others in the series!
<grin> I don't take it as negative. There are a couple of illustrations that I don't think really worked out the way I intended. The idea here was to put the subjects of the drawing off into the blurry distance, so you had to look around the room to find them, but I don't think anyone really wants to stumble upon a "where's waldo" in the middle of a story. :D
I suppose that blurry distance idea is what I'm reacting to---it looks like so much background with no foreground. The solution I was thinking was to make it all foreground, which would be intentionally overwhelming and about as much effort to draw as a Where's Wally* double-spread anyway. This is a nice compromise.
* I never understood why they changed the name in the UK.
Posted by Sehnsucht 15 years ago Report
This is the one least served by the fuzzy pencil style. Since it doesn't have a single, strong subject I feel like it should have detail, so the reader can examine it and see things he/she missed earlier. The composition is still nice---I just wish I could see more of it.
This sounds like a negative comment, but this is contrasted against the high expectations set by the others in the series!
Posted by 4ofSwords 15 years ago Report
<grin> I don't take it as negative. There are a couple of illustrations that I don't think really worked out the way I intended. The idea here was to put the subjects of the drawing off into the blurry distance, so you had to look around the room to find them, but I don't think anyone really wants to stumble upon a "where's waldo" in the middle of a story. :D
Posted by Sehnsucht 15 years ago Report
I suppose that blurry distance idea is what I'm reacting to---it looks like so much background with no foreground. The solution I was thinking was to make it all foreground, which would be intentionally overwhelming and about as much effort to draw as a Where's Wally* double-spread anyway. This is a nice compromise.
* I never understood why they changed the name in the UK.
Posted by 4ofSwords 15 years ago Report
I thought "Waldo" had another meaning in the UK... something like "dildo". :) That'd be like titling a children's book "Hide the Sausage!"
I nearly did leave the blur off this one, and maybe it would have been a better idea. Ah, well.