Blog Tour: Writing Process

Let me thank Annina Luck Wildermuth for suggesting me for this Blog Tour. I have known Annina for quite some time through SCBWI. I am lucky that she is a part of a group of people who inspire me to continue to be creative.

So, onward to the questions.

  1. What am I working on?

As an unpublished author with no obligations I continue to work on a variety of items in a variety of media. Currently, my main focus is some artwork to support my 12 x 12 submission for a story called The Cowboy Kid.

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I am also doing some preliminary sketched for another idea that has some interesting images, but, as yet no story.

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  1. How does my work differ from others of this genre?

Hard to say. Most of what I see in the market is strictly digital, and there is a great benefit to this type of work.

I primarily work in pen and ink with watercolor. Some of my work is strictly watercolor, but my preference always goes back to pen and ink.

I use Rotring fountain pens, a kind that is no longer manufactured and occasionally surfaces on ebay. I sketch on hotpress in pencil, ink it, usually expand my lines with brush. I use Winsor & Newton artist grade watercolors. I have my series 7 brushes, but have been experimenting with cheaper versions lately.

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I also work in digital, but I still have a long way to go to find my “look” that feels natural. There are so many talented digital artists already, so I usually keep reverting to pen and ink, where I believe my strength lies.5

  1. Why do I write what I do?

I have always have had a fascination for children’s books. I blame it on “Where the Wild Things Are”. Who could resist a pen and ink book with monsters. Like all artists and writers, I have drawers full of stories and drawings. I joined SCBWI on a lark and have been a member for quite some time. A few of us get together in Huntington NY to support our creativity and critique our work.

4. How does my writing process work?

Usually ideas come to me in a flash and I write the core down on a piece of paper when it strikes. I like to illustrate and write the story at the same time, doing little sketches wrapped by words to give me a look and feel of a story. I have plenty of books for inspiration.2Once I have the idea down, I type it up and see how much survives to make a good story. Once I’ve done several revisions I usually storyboard the work to see how it would translate into a book. 6I usually do quite a few sketches to get a look and feel before I commit to some complete work.

The next person on the blog tour is Jessica Boehman. Jessica is a llustrator and a professor of Art History living in NYC and a friend of Annina Luck Wildermuth .

You can find Jessica’s blog tour post at http://www.hansmyhedgehog.com/blog/blog-tour

And she runs two sites:

www.hansmyhedgehog.com

www.jessicaboehman.com

Please take a look at her site and continue the tour.

R.I.P. Jean “Moebius” Giraud (1938-2012).

A truly amazing talent.

http://www.moebius.fr/

http://blog.drawn.ca/post/19070254436/r-i-p-jean-moebius-giraud-1938-2012-heres-a

http://io9.com/5892148/legendary-french-artist-moebius-the-man-who-made-the-abyss-alien-and-tron-even-weirder-is-dead-at-73

http://illustration.org/archives/740

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2012/03/remebering-moebius.html

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-me-moebius-20120311,0,3697696.story

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Giraud

http://www.linesandcolors.com/2012/03/10/jean-giraud-moebius-1938-2012/

http://www.francetv.fr/culturebox/hommage-la-planete-moebius-en-10-videos-85761

https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/Moebius

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/17327374

 

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