Can finally show art from recent book project!
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Thought I'd share some pages form a book I illustrated a few months ago and is being release in July.
It was an interesting situation where a toy company, Green Toys, went through a traditional publisher, Cameron + Company, who then hired me at flat rate.
The CRAZY part about this project was that it was a full 32 page picture book done in 6 weeks...over Christmas. Anyway, not my characters (based on toys) or my style really but a great learning experience!
Nat Iwata
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6 weeks over Christmas?!? Thats crazy! They look great though.
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Wow! Amazing job in six weeks! Congratulations on the book.
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Great job!! I think they are very cute, and your timeline made my eye twitch hehe. I will keep an eye out for it, looks like something that would be just right for my grandson
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So awesome and fun, love the pool scene. Great job!
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@natiwata Really fantastic work Nat! Congrats!
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Congrats that's really cool. Especially the quality of work for being done in only 6 weeks.
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This is awesome, great work! Wow, 6 weeks is a real achievement for this quality!
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@natiwata 32 pages in six weeks.....WOW - it looks really great - especially like the "pool now open " brochure and the landscape in the second panel - really nice cheerful paintings - let us know where we can buy these when they are out!
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Really great work, looks like it was a fun project to work on.
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Congratulations, fantastic work! They look really professional and as everyone said, it's very impressive to get that quality of finish in six weeks. I'm sure your client must be very happy.
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Thank you for all the encouraging comments! It was a weird deal, I was asked to mimic someone else's style that had done 2 other books in the series, plus the toys, and working with the publisher's and the toy company's art directors at the same time. I almost died
Nat Iwata
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Very nicely done!
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@natiwata Ha that sounds stressful, nice job on making it through Nat and in 6 weeks to boot!
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Very nice work!
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Awesome! That's really great that you could finish it in 6 weeks! Congratulations.
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@natiwata Great work Nat! You are an inspiration! I love looking at your work.
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@Russ-Van-Dine @Charlie-Eve-Ryan @Timbdsf @Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen Thank you!!!
@Katrina-Fowler - Thanks for the kind words, you do amazing work! I just saw the kids on the bridge on your site, brilliant!
I just got copies of the book from the publisher yesterday! Here's a pick. Since it's a product book, my name's not on the cover, but they did put it on the title page which was nice:
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Fantastic, so good!
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Amazing work Nat!
