I saved this book for last because it is my favorite in the series. This one deals with how to be green in your community, I liked this one because I wasn't stuck in one location like the other books. It had a lot of variety and most of the settings were outdoors. Community also took the longest, having around 85-90 characters total throughout the book. While I had a system of doing a character in about an hour, either reusing one from a previous book and changing the clothes & pose, or doing a completely new character. When you say "it only takes an hour per character" that doesn't sound bad, but when you get around 90 characters it takes awhile, thats not even including backgrounds - which were the most complicated in this book.
I loved working on this series but it took its tole on me. I tired keeping track of how long it took me but I lost count after awhile, but it took around a week of sketching each book, then around three weeks to do finals per book, if I had to guess around 300-350 hours per book, and that is probably conservative. I had a lot of late nights including several all-nighters to finish, but I'm extremely proud of these and would do it again in a heart beat. Its great to finally be able to show these.
Here is the cover:
And some of the interiors:
I think thats the most updates I've had in one month :) Hope everyone likes them as much as I enjoyed working on them!
4 comments:
Really fun stuff. I really enjoy reading these and looking at the art work that accompanies the text... I hope you make lots of money from these books! :P theyre awesome!
Kyle, the atmosphere of each of the illustrations are incredible. You've really out done yourself on this book series. Great Job!
This is great! Backgrounds are awesome! Just 3 weeks per book is seems like not to much time for such a job. In which program did you make backgrounds? Illustrator?
Davor, everything I illustrate is done in photoshop
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