Usually my approach to art making is to jump in paint brushes ablazing! I try to make the work in one go (especially water color) to keep it fresh, expressive, and gestural. This does not always lend itself to illustration. So here are my preliminary drawings for Hans Christian Anderson's,"The Little Match Girl".
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| "Her little hands were almost numbed with cold. Oh! a match might afford her a world of comfort, if she only dared take a single one out of the bundle, draw it against the wall, and warm her fingers by it. She drew one out. "Rischt!" how it blazed, how it burnt! It was a warm, bright flame, like a candle, as she held her hands over it: it was a wonderful light"- H.CA. |
This little drawing above was made on a post-it note - 3"x3"- with ball point pen and yellow colored pencil. I found an artist who makes all of his drawings on post-its (!) which I thought would be a brilliant idea for storyboarding since you can move the pics around and change the sequence of your story.
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| "When she left home she had slippers on, it is true; but what was the good of that? They were very large slippers, which her mother had hitherto worn; so large were they; and the poor little thing lost them as she scuffled away across the street, because of two carriages that rolled by dreadfully fast." |
Here is the second drawing made with conte crayon and colored pencil. This one measures 5"x7"- practically huge in comparison with the post-it. If her shoes look big its because in the story all she has to wear are her mother's slippers - which are later stolen by an urchin (I can't wait to draw the slipper-stealing urchin!).
Both of these drawings were made from imagination. I generally always work with a model or some sort of reference photo. I'm a little shy about showing my "from imagination" stuff so please be kind!
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