Monday, August 2, 2010

Tips For Green Living - Home

Today is a very exciting day, the release of my first set of children's books from Picture Window Books, they are also available on amazon here. My career has had some ups and downs but this is a highlight for sure. There are 4 books in the series, each 20 pages - over the next month I'll be posting spreads from all the books. The sets are aimed to teach kids about how they can be more eco-friendly in their Home, School, Shopping, and Community.

Book 1 focus is on the home. There was a big learning curve from what I normally do. Usually I don't do art that carries the same style throughout, I like mixing things up - so to stick to one technique for 80 pages was sometimes difficult. The first image is the cover, I only did the characters that they pulled from the interiors of the book.


Here are some of the interior spreads - these are 2 pages split down the middle. I won't be posting all the pages but will show at least half of the books. I should also note that the word boxes are temporary ones that I put in to make sure that the art wasn't conflicting with where the publisher was going to place them, they redid them and made them a little more colorful.







This was a huge undertaking, many times I would be doing finals on one book and sketches for the next, with the occasional correction on a previous book. I'm really happy with the result, I may post some of the sketches in a later post to show progression. Stay tuned, will be updating every week this month...

2 comments:

Abz said...

WOW!!!! Kyle, these are incredible! I can see the amount of work and though behind all these!! The sketching, the ideas all coming together in one scene talking about each point-- wow man...really well done! I especially love the stairs above, the perspective is great, and you made it look really easy to make. Pat yourself on the back-- and go on vacation! You've worked hard!

Jason Dove said...

Great illustrations Kyle!!! The layout and the characters are so well done! As well as the lighting and texture. Very impressive! I can't wait to see more!