Posted by Jess Smart Smiley on September 15, 2011 · 2 Comments
You can no longer talk about children’s book art in Utah without hearing Willy Terry’s name pop up. This is a good thing. A very good thing. See what I mean? This is a typical painting from Will—and by ‘typical’ I mean teeming with rich, luscious colors, playful contrast between light and dark tones, endearing … Read more
Filed under BOOK, CREATIVITY, DESIGN, DRAWING, INSPIRATION, PREVIEW, PROCESS, STORYTELLING, TUTORIAL, VIDEO · Tagged with book design, character design, children's books, children's illustration, digital painting, drawing, how to, illustration, publishing, rendering, rough draft, Society of Illustrators, storytelling with pictures, Utah Valley University, video series, will terry, working with color
Posted by Jess Smart Smiley on July 23, 2011 · 7 Comments
For anyone that’s been following my novel-in-the-works, I have exciting news: I’VE FINISHED MY ROUGH DRAFT! Hooray! Three months of writing, 232 pages typed, and 127,000 words written. Phew! Since finishing, I’ve been drawing like crazy, and planning out my next projects, trying to get my mind off of my novel, so that I can … Read more
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Tonight I am presenting How I Made My Graphic Novel at the Orem Public Library, from 7-8pm. The event is free and open to the public. I’ll be taking the audience through a step-by-step process of how I made my book, Upside Down: A Vampire Tale—everything from the initial idea, to developing the story, making … Read more
Filed under COMICS, CREATIVITY, DESIGN, DRAWING, EVENT, FREE, GRAPHIC NOVEL, INTERVIEW, NOVEL, PREVIEW, PROCESS, SKETCHBOOK, STORYTELLING, TUTORIAL, UPSIDE DOWN, WRITING · Tagged with all-ages, Arts and Entertainment, book, comic, comic book, final artwork, getting published, Graphic novel, Libraries, Orem Utah, presentation, process, Public, Public library, rough draft, sketchbooks, step-by-step, uspide down, vampire, vampire comic, vampire tale, witch
