A big pile of Flour
I always try to use any lost minute to make as much sketches as possible, the idea for this one just came out of nowhere.
It is an advantage to sketch in a limited timeframe because I don’t have any time to think about what I will be drawing. When I start to think it can take hours before I draw the first line but when I have to start immediately the most interesting scene’ s appear.
This sketch just happened like that, I have no idea why this medieval figure came out of my pencil or why it is thinking if it can load all those sacks of flour on to the cart all at once. Thing is that this could be a scene from a story where you immediately find yourself asking questions like who is this figure, where those sacks of flour need to go or if that poor horse needs to pull that cart all by himself. A good drawing always has a story to tell.
This might be a good idea for a next project. I already feel a bit sorry for the horse though
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I think you should explore pencil sketches like this a lot more – they have a lot of character to them that ink just can’t match. And I love the horse’s expression! There’s a real liveliness to this scene that I really adore – good children’s and young adult book illustration is at a low ebb in North America, so I would definitely look into developing your work in that direction, both in comics, and in more traditional illustrated and picture books. You have a great hand for it!
One thing – in English, the word for ground wheat powder is “Flour,” not “Flower.” But still.
–M
Thanks M!
You are so right about the pencils, when I’m inking I’m unintentionaly cramping up, so all the smooth pencil lines get lost under this cramped up ink line.
You mentioned before I should look into making childrens literature for North America and I am playing with the idea for a childrens picture book, any ideas on which doors I should knock when I have something more concrete to show?
Anyway thanks for the comment!
Joost
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