Category: Practical Project

  • Coma Deer

    Coma Deer

    I am still experimenting with the layout of the book; I started adding a bit of colour behind some of the text to make the design more interesting. The first sketch illustrates moment Nicholas the Aye-aye’s head starts transforming into the head of Simone.

  • Coma Deer – Cover

    Coma Deer – Cover

    This is the final version of the cover, for the time being at least. I went for a green light source, trying to make it a bit moody. Though it sort of made it look like the cover for a teenage vampire novel.

  • Coma Deer – Cover WIP

    Coma Deer – Cover WIP

    I started working on the cover for Coma Deer this week. I’ve only worked in black and white so far to get the values working, but I’ll start adding some colour pretty soon.

  • Coma Deer – layout

    Coma Deer – layout

    Here are a couple of examples for the layout of my book – nothing is final yet. I didn’t give layout much thought in the planning process, and I don’t think I even included time for doing layout on my schedule. But it’s actually quite an extensive field and I still have a lot to…

  • Coma Deer – in the waiting room

    Coma Deer – in the waiting room

    Here’s some drawings for the first few pages of the book.

  • Coma Deer – more Coma creatures

    Coma Deer – more Coma creatures

    These are some of the first creature Jamie encounters in Coma.

  • Coma Deer – running

    Coma Deer – running

    Here are two drawings I did of Jamie running.

  • Coma Deer – more colour tests

    Coma Deer – more colour tests

    I’ve posted these before, but I did some modifications to the colours after getting feedback from my supervisor.

  • Coma Deer – colour experiment

    Coma Deer – colour experiment

    I did an inked version of the deer sketch that I posted earlier. I was dissatisfied with the flat colouring on the earlier tests for the book, so I decided to try something new. Here I added some quick variation and texture into the colour, to add some more life to the illustration. It is…

  • Coma Deer – creature sketches

    Coma Deer – creature sketches

    Sketches for some creatures with the head of Simone that Jamie encounters in Coma.