What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Debbie Ridpath Ohi
June 22nd, 2018 by jules
Over at Kirkus today, I’ve got the outdoors on the mind.
That is here.
Last week, I wrote here at Kirkus about Michael Ian Black’s and Debbie Ridpath Ohi’s I’m Sad (Simon & Schuster, June 2018). I’m following up here at 7-Imp today with some preliminary/process images from Debbie, as well as a bit of final art from the book. I thank her for sharing.
I gave the Flamingo in I’m Sad a distinct mouth, for example.”
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re-read the manuscript text; then I start scribbling.”
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how I’m going to draw them …”
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story flow, visual layout, etc.”
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with my placeholder text …”
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so my art director could add the real text.”
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I’M SAD. Copyright © 2018 by Hot Schwartz Productions. Illustrations © 2018 by Debbie Ridpath Ohi. Published by Simon & Schuster, New York. Illustrations and all other images used by permission of Debbie Ridpath Ohi.
I love, love, love that we’re now giving kids the conversational cues to say “I will still like you even if you’re in a mood that lasts for days.” We all need to learn to ask for that and to say that…
by tanita June 22nd, 2018 at 11:03 am