RE: My ink drawing of "Yidneth and Peti" + photos and curious facts about European Robins
This is very enchanting to look at. The sort of illustration that draws you in, and makes you want to just gaze at it and wonder why she looks the way she does. Making the viewer imagine what kind of story goes with her ethereal personality, is what pulls it all together.
The old children's book I most enjoyed were all picture books. There was one with a little boy who was a brown bear and a pig-like nose. The Grimm's Fairy tale books. The Berenstain Bears. Dr. Seuss. They always had a compelling cover portrait, or a quaint scene to introduce each chapter. Something about illustrations like this had me returning to them again and again. So simple, and yet so deeply thought inspiring.
Leave the pencil lines and unfinished lines once in a while. It reminds us that the world we are looking at extends beyond paper.
Thank you I love to collect illustrated fairytale books, my favourites are those illustrated by Rackham, Bauer, Goble and so many others from XIX and early XX century. When I do the ink doodles I rarely plot much and then I scan different ones and "construct" more complex illustrations with the computer though many stay like this in traditional form. Some of them for the new album I overdid the digital, and my friend and well known illustrator Charles Vess (Stardust, Sandman...) told me Pris, you need to keep the line, or if not it becomes too polished, so some I'll leave digital but for ohers I'll be trying some place in-between
I remember also in the fairytale books there are smaller black and white illustrations along with the text and then the full colour plates, so will be some of the sort. I have done around 30 of the 70 drawings I want to do for the third album, been lazy last while but encouraged to give it a final push