{"id":2586,"date":"2013-06-18T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T06:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2013-06-18T00:01:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T06:01:56","slug":"a-peek-at-yuyi-morales-drawing-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2586","title":{"rendered":"A Peek at Yuyi Morales’ Drawing Table"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“NI\u00d1O!” (final art)<\/em>
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Last week at Kirkus<\/em>, I wrote about Yuyi Morales’<\/a><\/strong> newest picture book, Ni\u00f1o Wrestles the World<\/em>, published this month by Neal Porter\/Roaring Brook. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Today, Yuyi visits to share some early sketches, dummies, final art, etc. I thank her for sharing. Let’s get to it … <\/p>\n

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Yuyi<\/font><\/strong>: Here is an image of a page in which I kept reworking the text — and also images of some of my early thumbnails. The more I draw, the more I go to very small studies of my characters — tiny sometimes! And, yes, the first drawings are very simple and rather ugly.<\/p>\n


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Very early version of El Chamuco<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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Ni\u00f1o’s Doll Decoy<\/em>
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Hermanita<\/em>
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Working with the text<\/em>
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Thumbnails<\/em>
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Here are early drawings and my thumbnails for some of the spreads, including a progression of stick figure drawings to more refined sketches for Lucha moves. <\/p>\n

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Early version of Cabeza Olmeca<\/em>
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Copyright and title pages<\/em>
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Lucha moves<\/em>
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Thumbnails of El Extraterrestre<\/em>
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Las Hermanitas<\/em>
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Here are some sketches of spread compositions and their corrections.<\/p>\n

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Dummy of Ni\u00f1o vs. El Chamuco and its correction<\/em>
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La Momia de Guanajuato<\/em>
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Here are ink drawings and the acrylic painting colors I later scanned into my computer so that I would use them to paint digitally. Cabeza Olmeca’s is a combination of acrylic paint and salt.<\/p>\n

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El Chamuco with colors<\/em>
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Ink line drawings<\/em>
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Cabeza Olmeca<\/em>
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And finally some color art [without the text and the impressive typography]: <\/p>\n

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“Ni\u00f1o!”<\/em>
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“Uh-oh, Olmec Head awaits his chance to bump skulls with Ni\u00f1o!…”<\/em>
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“His sisters’ nap is over. Time for Ni\u00f1o to tangle with LAS HERMANITAS!
NI\u00d1O VS LAS HERMANITAS”<\/em>
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Copyright page<\/em>
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Back cover (also sans text)<\/em>
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Cover<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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NI\u00d1O WRESTLES THE WORLD. Copyright \u00a9 2013 by Yuyi Morales. Published by Neal Porter\/Roaring Brook, New York. All images used with permission of Yuyi Morales.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“NI\u00d1O!” (final art)(Click to enlarge) Last week at Kirkus, I wrote about Yuyi Morales’ newest picture book, Ni\u00f1o Wrestles the World, published this month by Neal Porter\/Roaring Brook. That link is here. Today, Yuyi visits to share some early sketches, dummies, final art, etc. I thank her for sharing. Let’s get to it …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-interviews","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}