@sminthy This is cool! Really, I don't have a ton of experience... So take it as you will. Your darkest bunny has a very similar dark background, your light bunnies have a light background. You may consider finding a way to help them stand out. The huge area of white sky also really draws my eye away from the bunny. But if you have words going there maybe that will help. I like how you show the whole jump, great idea. Keep up the good work!
Oh that’s a great point! I hadn’t thought about modifying the background behind the different tones for the bunnies. I’ll play with that for sure. I was planning on using that white space for the words, but maybe I can do a wash of a less-distracting green or something there just to imply more of the rainforest around them. I’ll play with it and figure that out 🙂 Thank you for the feedback!
@tomparsonsart Aah thank you so much~ 🙂 🙂 I know, with Thanksgiving around the corner, too, there seems to be so little time, haha. I'll be looking forward to the updates! 😃
@helen Kids activity packs were part of the inspiration for this. nothing is worse than getting home with a new toy to relise that batteries are not included or you need something else, so i wanted to include everything you needed because a trading card game for younger kids realy should be like an activity pack.
This is fantastic Dima, congratulations on all your hard work bearing such beautiful fruit. I too, have just finished the illustrations for my first children's book with a self publishing author. So many lessons learnt, and so rewarding. I hope our book looks at least half as good as yours!
@ContinuousLines The graphic style of this really cute and I think there are some things working really well… the simple style of the bears and the colors etc. I think, though, the perspective of the piece is getting lost in the flatness. I don’t know if that makes sense. I think you could keep the simple style you are going for and still accomplish that. You might play with pushing the values a bit more. Jon Klassen does this really well. His style is definitely flat and graphic, but he uses texture and color and light to create a sense of perspective. Things that are close have much more texture and detail and the things that are further away are very very simple. He also pushes the darks and lights to pull your attention where he wants it. I hope that’s helpful. Very cute. 🙂 22098550.SX318.jpg
The path this took my eye on was quite a ride! I land on the main girl's face (nice contrast around here) then travel along her gaze to the pointing lady who takes me to the fella with the bag and swoops me off his arm up the guy to his left and across the hanging balls at the top. This rolled me along the right market stalls and down the balder guy into his dragon graphic and from his shoulder I'm pointed back to the main girl. Well done! I feel as though I was just jostled around a marketplace on the whim of your frenzied environment. The expressions lean mostly positively too which gives this scene a more welcoming and exciting feel as opposed to an anxious and negatively overwhelming air.
I can't thinking of anything that stands out to me as needing revision though.. Hope this helps a little. Thanks for sharing!
While I definitely think the third thumbnail conveys best the feeling of being overwhelmed, it seems like the eye-line is too low unless of course your character is a smaller one in the two to three foot tall range. If that isn't the case, I really like the last thumbnail and think that the signs coming down from above and protruding in from the sides are very effective at giving that sense of being overwhelmed. The fella on the right helps that theme too! Makes the viewer feel even more crowded. Nice work thumbnailing!