Introducing book 2

Ok, I should have done this earlier. I've finished quite a few pages now, and I've only shown you one; so here are some more:

Firstly the cover. I've 'stickered-up' the cover now, so this means the book is officially under way.

                                     

I've used some of the stickers from my collection. Most of them are from my Stickerbomb books, but I've also got some Jon Burgerman characters on there that came free with some of his books that I bought. (Www.jonburgeman.com and www.biro-web.com) The Lego angel is from Redbubble.com and the 'fragile' sticker is from the local post office here in Cheese Town. I put it upside down as I didn't want it to look too much like a title of a magazine cover.

Here are some of the first pages of the neeeeew book....

        

        

 

        

        

The page above has been on-going for a while. I painted the pink and yellow background before I really knew what I was going to draw on it, then I decided it would be ideal for my new skateboard. I left it blank for a long time, then came back to it after I'd completed a few more pages. I originally drew the whole skateboard, but I didn't like the composition and it was too similar to the longboard I drew on the first page, so I thought I'd focus in in more detail. The drawing ended up quite a bit bigger than I intended, as they often do, so I just drew over the writing on the previous page. I like how this joins the two drawings together. 

           

Something funny went on with the scanner here....

          

...then the scanner broke completely and I had to use a camera for this one, hence the blury-ness....

Colouring the sky on this drawing was very therapeutic and I was almost sorry when I'd completed it. I'm going to finish this one off later. I think the man in the foreground needs a face.

When I photographed this page I noticed that there was something missing (not just the man's face) and so I've coloured in the stage in marker to make it stand out from the rest of the drawing. I think I worked on this one for too long, and sometimes when I do that I can't see whether it's finished or not, so photographing it helps me to step back, almost as if someone else drew it.

                                     All images Copyright Rebecca Gregory 2014