{"id":3331,"date":"2014-02-25T08:45:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T14:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3331"},"modified":"2014-02-26T09:08:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T15:08:05","slug":"have-you-seen-steve-lights-sketchbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3331","title":{"rendered":"Have You Seen Steve Light’s Sketchbook?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Early sketch<\/em>
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Have You Seen My Dragon?<\/a><\/strong><\/em> is the latest from author-illustrator Steve Light, who visited 7-Imp for a cyber-breakfast<\/a><\/strong> in 2012. The book will hit bookshelves in April (Candlewick Press). <\/p>\n

This is the intricately-drawn story of a young boy in New York City, looking for his dragon. As you can see from the cover, he’s inspired by the manhole cover, blowing up steam in the street. Could there be a dragon down there? He’s lost his, after all. He goes searching through the city, yet the dragon is always just<\/em> around the bend. <\/p>\n

Light brings readers elegant pen-and-ink drawings but also, as you can see from some of the final spreads at the bottom of this post, splashes of color. This is also a counting book. (The boy stops for a hot dog, wondering if his dragon got hungry, so we have “2 Hot dogs,” and then the boy wonders if his dragon went downtown on a bus, so we have “3 Buses,” and so on — all the way up to 20.) <\/p>\n

There are so many details to pore over here (I have an F&G, but I’m fairly certain the detailed maps opening and closing the book are the endpapers, happy sigh), and Light’s line drawings are utterly beguiling. This is an inviting picture book, offering moments of exploration and discovery. It’s simply beautiful. <\/p>\n

Steve’s visiting today to share some sketches, which I love to see. And, as mentioned, there are two final spreads below, as well as the ornately-drawn full cover. You can enlarge each image for seeing in more detail by clicking on it. <\/p>\n

I thank Steve for sharing. Enjoy …
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Early Cover Sketches
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From the Sketchbooks …
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Early Sketches
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Tools of the Trade
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Reference Images
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Some Final Spreads
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“Or climbed up to get a drink of water. …”<\/em>
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“Hello! Has a dragon come through here?”<\/em>
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Full cover<\/em>
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In the Studio
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HAVE YOU SEEN MY DRAGON? Copyright \u00a9 2014 by Steve Light. Spreads reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA. All other images used with permission of Steve Light.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early sketch(Click to enlarge) Have You Seen My Dragon? is the latest from author-illustrator Steve Light, who visited 7-Imp for a cyber-breakfast in 2012. The book will hit bookshelves in April (Candlewick Press). This is the intricately-drawn story of a young boy in New York City, looking for his dragon. As you can see from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331","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=3331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}