Any day I can paint cute girls with big hair is a good day for me 😌 Here are some insights into the process for how we reached the final! First rough sketches just to start sending us in a direction. Marketing team was torn between a portrait, and more ambitious full body pose.
They really enjoyed the standing pose with the city, so now it was time to find a direction with the title design and the pose! 3 poses x 3 title designs = 9 possible covers!
I have been waiting for this book for yeaaaars. Can't believe I'm finally holding @itsdeenasaur's Shubeik Lubeik in my hands!
I think it's neat. But I also co-authored it. Here are some neat things cooler people thought about SQUIRE. "Instantly compelling. I want to live in this story forever." @MollyOstertag
my artistic process lately
A quick refresher I did with my art team at @play_multiverse to practice how to understand your references, and use them meaningfully and in a way that keeps the energy in your sketches! our team does weekly foundation sessions together just to keep our brain juices going
No one did it like Bill Watterson
check ins
Me: please send me updates of my cat My lil bro: ok
Left: it's 2014, I'm a high schooler. I got my signed copy of the Legend of Korra art book when I met one of the co-creators. Told him I became an artist because of the Avatar series. Right: 2021. I get to share that I co-created an official Avatar story for Free Comic Book Day.
One of those days
you best believe it is the #sameartist