his week I have been working on an illustration style for our website, so that we can do some printable downloads for children that log onto to the website. The paper doll idea is always popular and easily printable onto thicker paper.....the illustrations above were done by using the illusrator programme on the mac to trace the watercolour painting, and create gradients in the vector shapes....while the painterly style is prettier, the clean lines of illustrator is more in keeping with the rest of our products...if you want to see all the dolls in the range you can log onto the budkins website
How adorable. I just wrote a post yesterday about the joy of paper dolls. Your work is wonderful.
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Gasp! Agree your painterly work is delightful and more magical. Was involved in a most interesting conversation yesterday with a print art historian specialising in illustration and maps... we were discussing female illustrators (for children) of around 100 years ago and being Australian, spending a bit more attention on May Gibbs and Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Danielle ... seriously girl ... you have a magnificent unique world of artwork for children in your fabulous bewitched bemagic'ed brain. Do you have stories tucked away in there too? Have you seen the Beatrix Potter movie lately?
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Really good ones, Danielle. Looks like you have figured out what we talked about the other day. ...and got the paper dolls down!
ReplyDeleteNice work, my friend! I think they look great and will be a great incentive to check out the website.
damn, you are GOOD!
I LOVE YOUR ORIGINAL PAINTING! SO BEAUTIFULLY DONE - THE SHADING IS SO LOVELY AND THE EXPRESSION IS GLORIOUS. THE COMPUTER ONE IS EXCELLENT QUALITY AND GREAT FOR KIDS TO BE ABLE TO PRINT OFF BUT FOR ME THE HUMAN TOUCH IS BY FAR SUPERIOR! XXDI
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