A Peek Inside: Grandude’s Green Submarine
Hey everyone! My name is Kathryn Durst and I am so excited to be sharing some behind-the-scenes work from my latest book release, Grandude’s Green Submarine by Paul McCartney and illustrated by me!
A Peek Inside: Sophie’s Stories, Part 2/2
You may not know it seeing the final spreads with everything pulled together so nicely, but getting there wasn’t easy. Especially early on, I worked through a lot of doubt and hesitancy while illustrating the book. When I look through my painted spreads, the early ones are much lighter, with color not extending as far as it should, or with an overall unfinished appearance. I was having to go back with digital tools to carry them through. And this was really frustrating!
A Peek Inside: Sophie’s Stories, Part 1/2
“Sophie’s Stories” is out in the world and I’m very happy to share behind the scenes insights with you! “Sophie’s Stories” started as a personal challenge to create a story I could work on while making final art for my debut book, “Found You”. Tapping into that energy made it easier to feel open to fresh ideas…
A Peek Inside: Pencilvania
Hi there! This is Sofia and today I would like to share a new book that has been released lately. Working on PENCILVANIA took the best part of my 2021, and while the world was going through the pandemic and isolation, I was deep in creating imaginary creatures that came from a 12-year old’s sketchbook. As an illustrator I had a job to get inside Zora’s mind and recreate her drawings from the time since she started drawing for the first time and till when she became more experienced artist using different tools and mediums. But before that…