Ken W. Min ~ Illustrator for Hire

A Long Walk ~ Fin

here's the finish for that last post.

this is a story about a girl who goes on a walk with a song in her heart and collects souvenirs from her travels. that's why there are musical notes floating around and icons of the things she has collected. such as a rainbow, and a ball. the heart represents her sunny disposition. as she goes on, she will collect more and more items until she decides to go home to show her mother all she has seen.

one suggestion made to me recently was to take advantage of some of the white spaces that i have in some of my work. it allows one to focus on the important aspects in my pictures, (according to this person) it was something that i thought about and took to heart. i've always admired illustrators like ezra jack keats and eric carle and it is in their footsteps that i trot.

so i hope you, my imaginary viewership, like these baby steps. :)

A Long Walk

i have an idea for a picture book. i've been working on this particular story for a while and put together a dummy book. a dummy book is the storytellers rough, loose, interpretation of his/her story. it lays out how the story is paced on a page by page basis and occasionally has a couple of color finishes to show prospective publishers what the final images might look like.

i had worked this one up to dummy book form some time back, but after a couple of reviews from some people in the publishing field, i wanted to go back to the drawing board and re-visualize some of the images.  the reviews weren't terrible or discouraging, just suggestions to simplify the layouts and some of the visuals.

which is what i'm working on now.

here is one of the revised compositions. at some point soon, i'm going to paint this one up. if anything, just so i can draw a bit of personal inspiration to keep this puppy moving along.