I’ve moved on to my final chunk of tight roughs. These pages take place in a nebulous sort of dream place and it’s fun coming up with dream imagery. However, as my own dreams often involve pursuit by zombies, I’ll refrain from relying on personal experience and instead pull from the pool of things I have most fun drawing. Jellyfish drifting through space? Sure. Humpback whales diving through the clouds. Of course!
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It’s been a while since I dropped some progress photos in here… and it’s not because I haven’t been working on the book, it’s because once I’m done drawing for the day, blogging is supplanted by the need to stake tomato plants, to pick the beans before they get too big and tough, to wash and process fresh, huge Westham Island blueberries bought on weekend excursions, to build a new flower bed, to enjoy summer evening bbqs with friends, to spend an evening biking around the seawall… and finally to enjoy the summer as much as possible before it’s gone.
But here are a few photos of the last spread I was working on over the last week or so. I’ll do a much longer post when the final illustration is done because this particular illustration underwent quite a change when I realised it didn’t quite jive with the concept of the other pages, and it’s a good example of the evolution some of my illustrations go through from first impression to final composition.
Sketches and details from the latest spread.
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Kirsti Anne Wakelin | picture book illustration 