« 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks #507: Featuring Harriet Muncaster
The Art of Toshikado Hajiri »

Carson Ellis’s Gladdenboot New Picture Book

h1 November 2nd, 2016 by jules



 

I’ve got a review over at BookPage of Carson Ellis’s newest picture book, Du Iz Tak? (Candlewick, October 2016).

The review is here, and today Carson shares some preliminary images from book. I’ve got a bit of final art as well. Pictured above is an early character study.

Enjoy!



 

Preliminary images:


 



Ink and color studies


 


Character studies
(Click to enlarge)


 


Early dummy


 



Illustrations in progress …
(Click each to enlarge)


 





Early sketches
(Click each to enlarge)


 

Some Final Spreads:


 


“Unk ribble!”
(Click spread to enlarge)


 


“RUP FURT!”
(Click spread to enlarge)


 



 

* * * * * * *

DU IZ TAK?. Copyright © 2016 by Carson Ellis. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.

All other images used by permission of Carson Ellis.





One comment to “Carson Ellis’s Gladdenboot New Picture Book”

  1. I love this book so much!

         by Shadra February 28th, 2017 at 1:39 pm

Leave a Comment


Should you have trouble posting, please contact sevenimp_blaine@blaine.org. Thanks.