This little dragonfly is in the corner of one of the pages. I’ve been looking forward to colouring it in for a long time. On each illustration, I like to leave the fun details until last, if I can, so I have something to look forward to.

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This post is part of a series documenting my process of illustrating a picture book. The entire series is archived here.

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Here’s a corner of a recently-completed page:

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This post is part of a series documenting my process of illustrating the picture book Dream Boats (author Dan Bar-el, pub. Simply Read Books). The entire series of posts is archived here.

View a slideshow of all the work-in-progress images including first sketches, reference material, mistakes, redraws, and tests, to final art at a much larger size, here.

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Here’s another little page detail:

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This post is part of a series documenting my process of illustrating the picture book Dream Boats (author Dan Bar-el, pub. Simply Read Books). The entire series of posts is archived here.

View a slideshow of all the work-in-progress images including first sketches, reference material, mistakes, redraws, and tests, to final art at a much larger size, here.

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