Let's start 2011 with ...

A failed attempt to use watercolour properly! XD

I bought 2 bottles of liquid watercolours 3 days ago and just had a chance to try it few hours ago. In my head I was imagining a beautiful sepia illustration as a finished result (btw.. the 2 colours that I bought was yellow (orange-ish) and dark brown).. but it ended with a crazy ugly result.. As an attempt to fix my failure, I quickly scanned and brought the abominable work into photoshop and patched it to death.. in the end I wasn't too happy with it (I even signed it as my first 2011 work.. blargh).

So.. anyway.. I'm uploading this image as the start of my 2011.. I hope by the end of 2011, I can make a decent improvement with this crazy medium - and my overall work.

and yes.. he's the Red Croc from my previous posts. He'll be back :D

Medium: Watercolour & lots of digital manipulations..


I hope you have a fantastic new year! Happy 2011! :D

Some more Crocs...

PART 03

Ok, so.. let me introduce you to Kyle (name will change later I think).. the Red Crocodile. He's Grumpy and not happy..

I think I get to the point where I have to move on to other characters.. I'll come back to him later and decide where I wanna go with the design. I'm quite happy with the stumpy shape so far. Will have to explore a bit more though.

I'm still planning to do my usual pencil drawing for the final illustrations, but it's always good to let myself free in the beginning of the process :)

some silhouettes:

and some more pencil, pen & ink sketches:



I hope you enjoy. I'll post another character soon - promise it won't be a croc. :)

More Crocs...

PART 02

I hope you don't mind seeing lots of crocodile sketches.. more to come later. Currently still in the experimentation phase..


I'm just wondering.. should I spill the whole story straight away or should I uncover it bit by bit? Still deciding what'll be better. What do you think?

Crocs...

PART 01

Hi all,
I've decided to start a personal project and document the 'journey' here. The plan is to have somekind of a children book at the end of this process. I have no experience in creating a proper children book before, so any suggestions in the process will be greatly appreciated.

I'll try to post most of my progress here.. so you'll get to see -some that I considered- successful and also some crap drawings/design. :) I'll have the basic story ready and brew it further as I post more.

First.. let's drop my first design experimentation on the first character - let's call him Mr.Croc for now (I'll drop the proper name later). These are really quick sketches to explore and get the feeling of the character - still not happy with any of these.. I will try some other styles and see what works best for the story.