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Folktaleweek is a while ago already, but I wanted Folktaleweek is a while ago already, but I wanted to share a bit of the behind the scenes of the illustrations. So here’s a bunch of sketches of anteaters! I think I only really decided to join on the first day of the challenge, so my prep was a little all over the place. Which was quite nice actually. No overthinking or endless composition studies and just draw what I wanted to that day. I chose an anteater like character accompanied by a fox. A few weeks ago I visited a natural history museum and got inspired (obsessed) by anteaters and their long snouts. The other choice was to create watercolour bleeds and blobs and use those as backgrounds for digital painting in procreate. I love to use the oil paint brush that comes with procreate and the MaxU Gesture Sketch brush from the @maxulichney gouache set. This was my first time doing #folktaleweek and loved the community! I don’t think my illustrations have ever gotten so much love, so thank you all ❤️ #folktaleweek2024 #picturebookartist #illustratorsketchbook #creativeprocess #illustrationprocess #kidlitart
Folktale week day 5&6: DEPTH + BONE Hurry up! You Folktale week day 5&6: DEPTH + BONE Hurry up! You’ll never know what lies beneath the surface Hosts: @debrastyer @jennifermpotter @kalyquarles @louve.draws @matejalukezic @rachaelschafermakes #folktaleweek #folktaleweekdepth #folktaleweekbone #folktaleweek2024 #folktaleweek2024depth #folktaleweek2024bone #childrensillustration #kidlitillustrator #kidlitillustration #picturebookartist
Folktale week day 4: TRAIL Up the tree they clim Folktale week day 4: TRAIL Up the tree they climbed to rest and watch over whats to come (Im probably gonna skip the next two days and just do the last one. Time and stuff 🥲) Hosts: @debrastyer @jennifermpotter @kalyquarles @louve.draws @matejalukezic @rachaelschafermakes #folktaleweek #folktaleweektrail #folktaleweek2024 #folktaleweek2024trail #tellastory #kidlitillustrator #kidlitillustration #picturebookartist
Folktale week day 3: Blight On their way, destina Folktale week day 3: Blight On their way, destination still unknown Maaayyyy have lost the blight part of this day somewhere in the process 🙃 For the illustrations so far I created backgrounds with watercolour and let the blobs be an inspiration for the rest of the composition. Swipe for the background versus wat I added digitally. Wanna have a peek inside my layers? Check my stories! 😄 Hosts: @debrastyer @jennifermpotter @kalyquarles @louve.draws @matejalukezic @rachaelschafermakes #folktaleweek #folktaleweekblight #folktaleweek2024 #folktaleweek2024blight #tellastory #picturebookmaker #picturebookartist #childrensillustration
Folktale week day 2: GATE Can we come in? Waterc Folktale week day 2: GATE Can we come in? Watercolour background combined with digital illustration in procreate. I love to multiply red and blue to create black, but let some of the colour shine through (check the birds!) Hosts: @debrastyer @jennifermpotter @kalyquarles @louve.draws @matejalukezic @rachaelschafermakes #folktaleweek #folktaleweekgate #folktaleweek2024 #folktaleweek2024gate #kidlitillustrator #kidlitartist #kidlitillustration
Folktale week day 1: MIST I tried to come up with Folktale week day 1: MIST I tried to come up with a story, but didn’t get very far. Lets see what will unfold… 🙂 There will be animals with long snouts in there, that’s for sure. Hosts: @debrastyer @jennifermpotter @kalyquarles @louve.draws @matejalukezic @rachaelschafermakes #folktaleweek #folktaleweek2024 #folktaleweek2024mist #folktaleweekmist
Look! So proud that I did all of these paintings i Look! So proud that I did all of these paintings in one month 🙌 Swipe for my personal favorites, which one was yours? Sooo @peachtober seems ages ago. I took some holiday time, went to Berlin for a few days, got back, stuff happened in the world, was really scared for a bit, got sick, the sun was shining yesterday, it’s a new week and here we are! Want to round off the challenge with a bit of reflection: 💙 I enjoyed working mostly in monochrome and omg I just love blue. 🩵 Discovered I really like to work with digital collage by using analogue shapes and . Especially when I feel a bit uninspired or stuck. 💛 Ink is just 🤌😽 🧡 A thin rigger / liner (?) brush is amazing for texture ❤️ Thinking of all the concepts in advance seemed smart, but ended up not really working for me. Too much time between the initial spark and the moment of painting. After about two weeks I needed a new spark. 🩷 Ideation and painting for so many days is hard! Left me burnt out a bit creatively. But have been doodling, colour swatching and doing some online drawing sessions to get back to playing and creating. 💜 so much love for the community of all of us doing this together!! Really enjoyed seeing what everyone did with the prompts and discovering people who make awesome stuff. #peachtober24 #peachtober24day32
Day 27: Grass Grass makes me feel like a kid and Day 27: Grass Grass makes me feel like a kid and I just want to run and do cartwheels Again, not even close to the initial sketches 🙃 #peachtober24grass #apaperaday24 #playmatters #playing #illustratie #digitalcollage #inkplay #collageplay