A few weeks ago, I headed to my hometown of San Antonio to attend a workshop: "The Exquisite Act of Balancing Text and Art with Richard Jesse Watson." hosted by SCBWI Southwest TX. My friend and fellow IC and illustrator Akiko White has a great summation of the day here. The day was inspiring, and I enjoyed connecting once again to the "why" of being a book creator.
It was also fun to see the different interpretations of our homework assignment, which was to illustrate a scene from Hundred Acre Woods in a new way. We were supposed to turn paradigms on their heads. I initially froze up on this because out of all the Disney movies, Winnie The Pooh was the most iconic. My childhood memory stored away those stories and songs and it took a while for me to wrestle away from the feeling of precious nostalgia.
I finally found my inspiration (once again) in food. Specifically this episode of I Love Lucy:
It was also fun to see the different interpretations of our homework assignment, which was to illustrate a scene from Hundred Acre Woods in a new way. We were supposed to turn paradigms on their heads. I initially froze up on this because out of all the Disney movies, Winnie The Pooh was the most iconic. My childhood memory stored away those stories and songs and it took a while for me to wrestle away from the feeling of precious nostalgia.
I finally found my inspiration (once again) in food. Specifically this episode of I Love Lucy:
Once I had a starting point, I began with character sketches. I decided that the factory would of course make honeybuns, and of course bees would be in charge.The shift supervisor appeared first, then a few other of the Hundred Acre Woods characters.
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| My scanner has a fun little habit of randomly cropping images as I scan them |
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| None of these felt quite right. |
I scanned the sketch in, cleaned it up, adding texture and color.
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| Time for your close-up, Piglet! "Oh, dear!" |
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| If time had permitted, there would have been MOUNTAINS of honeybuns on the floor. |
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