Keeping My Focus on a Multiple Piece Project

[Nyrryl Cadiz]

@TessaW these are so beautiful. Your thumbnails alone are so interesting. I’d love to see what you come up next.

[RG Spaulding]

@TessaW Beautiful thumbnails. Now I want to read the book!

[TessaW]

I've posted these in another thread, but like to keep everything here to see it come together. I decided to go in a different direction. Instead of all full bleed illustrations, I want to have more variety of format and interacting with text. I also want to leave a little more to the imagination as that's how it would be for an actual middle grade book- but I will probably still give more information than average.

[dickdavid]

I love this thread and all the work you put into this. Thanks for sharing.

[K. W.]

Love this project and the story concept! It’s looking awesome, and I’m excited to follow your process.

[BichonBistro]

@TessaW so great!

[Laurel Aylesworth]

WOW is all I can muster. This is awesome. If you're still looking for help in middle grade reference, Kelly Murphy and Poly Bernatene are a couple of my favorites.

[TessaW]

@dickdavid @K-W @BichonBistro

Thank you guys so much for the encouragement!

@Laurel-Aylesworth Ooo, awesome, thanks for the recommendations. I hadn't really heard of them before, but looking at some of their art, one of their pieces was already in my pinterest mood board for this series.

[TessaW]

Just putting these here to document!

[TessaW]

I've been a slooooow worker.

[Nyrryl Cadiz]

@TessaW That’s alright. We still love your work. Keep em comin

[Coreyartus]

This is all gorgeous, @TessaW! Keep up the good work!! It's coming together!!!

[TessaW]

Thank you @Nyrryl-Cadiz and @Coreyartus for the encouragment! You guys are sweet.

[TessaW]

Got another sketch done last night!

[TessaW]

Alright, I'm trying to wrap up the final paintings. Still have to construct a spot illustration, but the rest are in the painting stages. Trying to get them all 80-90% done and then will go through them all to refine and adjust overall values. Here are 4 out of 6 in various stages of finish.

[MattBaker]

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[MattBaker]

@TessaW Holy Moly, these are looking amazing, I would buy this book just for the illustrations alone. Thanks so much for sharing your process and talent.

[LauraA]

@TessaW I just love every page of this! Lovely flow and compositions.

[Neha Rawat]

Wowza! I can't believe I didn't see this thread before! This is an AH-MAZING documentation of your journey @TessaW !

[Coley]

@TessaW wows these are amazing!