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For this week's blogpost, I'm going to share the process of one of the b&w illustrations from Chapter 4: Mr. Badger:
"The Badger, who wore a long dressing-gown, and whose slippers were indeed very down-at-heel, carried a flat candlestick in his paw and had probably on his way to bed when their summons sounded."
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The illustration depicts Rat & Mole tumbling in out of the snow of the Wild Wood and into Badger's front entry way. I drew the characters separately on pieces of copy paper so that I could compose the image together and make adjustments to all of them individually.
Once the sketches were scanned, I started assembling a final composition. I tinted each character so I could easily see them amongst each other as well as the digitally drawn in background.
I didn't draw much of a background in my sketches, and instead of using another sheet of copy paper, I broke out my rarely used wacom tablet to draw in Badger's entry way.
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Other than the cover, this was my first illustration with Badger, so I started by inking him in first. His robe is based on the way Arthur Rackham used for Badger back when he illustrated the book.
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Here you can see the completed image as it will appear in the book along with 49 other B&W illustrations and 20 color.
Wind in the Willows from IDW will be available Fall of 2016 and is available to pre-order on Amazon.com:
For all my other Willows Process Posts:
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1 comment:
Thanks for writing this blog post! It has been very interesting to read, how you combine traditional and digital art. I need to try the part of traditionally drawing the various elements seperately. I think you had mentioned this before, but I had forgotten it again.
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