Being an Open Book

Aside from client projects, in the past few months I’ve been taking a break from making "finished" personal art to concentrate more on my sketchbooks. Part of the reasoning behind this was to get away from the computer and the other part was to simply just get better at drawing.

Extremely inspired by children’s illustrator, Renata Liwska, I have filled 4 and a half sketchbooks in the past few months. Here they are:

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I’m sure that most of you have seen Renata’s sky high sketchbook stacks:



A Quiet Look – How to become a children’s book illustrator in one (not so easy) step from mike kerr on Vimeo.

Seeing this video and learning how Renata works reminded me of all the work I should be doing to achieve my goals.

Another artist I’ve been following for many years is Pascal Campion. This video, made by a friend of his, is about his "Sketch of the Day" emails:



Inspirational Artists: Pascal Campion from Onyx Cinema, Inc. on Vimeo.

This interview is from 2 years ago and, wouldn’t you know, he still makes a new sketch every day. You can sign up to receive an email from him every day with a new sketch on the main page of his website.

Both Renata and Pascal’s sketches look like finished art to me, but they are so practiced. What Pascal says in this interview really hit home for me. I feel that I need to not only keep sketchbooks, I want to show them to people. Therefor, just for funsies, I decided to step even further out of my comfort zone to make an uber-amateur video. 🙂 Enjoy!



Flipping Through Sketchbooks from Renee Kurilla on Vimeo.

Thanks so much to everyone for your continued support on our blog!

Cheers!

~Renee

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