The Dragons treat

August 3 2009 - I finished the color for "the Dragon's Treat."


It's painted with gouache and watercolor on illustration board.
I've decided that I like watercolor board better.
The illustration board surface gets rough when a lot of water is used.

July 24 2009- I received some more comments from the SCBWI forum and made changes to the image and went to tight line art.



Next is to start to figure out the color.
I plan on doing a color wash over the whole image with watercolor and then going in with gouache to do the rest of the color.
After that I'll probably go back over the line work and give it more variation.


July 23 2009- Ok, I have reworked the rough after receiving comments from the SCBWI forum boards.
Here it is.


I made the image space larger to give the dragon some breathing space and show more of the balloon.
I also added in the tail.

July 22 2009- This is my rough for another possible portfolio piece.
It's a boy and his grandma feeding a dragon his favorite treat...Oreo cookies.
Grandma's got a purse full of them. I think I'll have some sugar packets and stuff falling out of the purse as well.
I'm still trying to decide if the dragon will be a boy or girl.



I know it's really rough, but if you see anything that stands out as "wrong" or have an idea that will enhance the work, let me know.

Depending on how this turns out, I just might use the grandma and boy as the focus of the next batch of drawings.
I think I'll add a little dog as well.

February Mailing campaign

Vincent Van Gogh attempts to show his affection for the subject of Toulouse Lautrec's painting, Yvette Guilbert.



This is the painted art from the sketch posted earlier.
This will be one of 3 or 4 images that will be included in an e-mail campaign during the month of February to advertise my illustration skills to existing and potential new clients.
If you would like to be included in my e-mail campaign you can sign up on my web site here....

http://www.robertsnyderillustrates.com/portfolio.html

There's a spot at the top of the page to sign up. It's free and it doesn't come out too often to be spam.

I submitted this image for Illustration Friday because Toulouse had to do a bit of "Climbing" to get on that stool.

After having finished this painting I am considering doing some Artists portaits in this style.