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I’m in meetings for the WondLa television series and I can’t wait for you to see how epic this show is. This dedicated group of amazing storytellers is giving it their all to create something truly special. Here’s some illustrations from the books to hold you over until then.📘🎞️
Sure, Twitter is a mess, but I'll keep posting art until they turn off the lights. That said, here's a special "Sketchbook Sunday" showing the process in developing the cover image for "The Search for WondLa", which got a refresh in anticipation of the upcoming series.🎨
While organizing old files I came across these two from 10 years ago. The tight, controlled inking style is similar to the illustrations done for the WondLa books, which was working on at the time.🖋 #beautyandthebeast
Wondla has a special place in my heart!!! I'm really happy with the good news :D
The illustrations in the #WondLa books are a combination of pen drawing (on vellum) and digital coloring. From there, we'd create 2 printing plates for the printer, which was tricky. The duotone process was inspired by the early editions of "The Wonderful Wizard of OZ" from 1900.
From the archive: We redesigned the WondLa cover art when book 1 went into paperback. The feedback from sales was that the original image wasn't edgy enough and the light dust jacket was prone to scuffing. A bummer--though I was excited Suzanne Collins was willing to blurb it.👍
More colorized art from The WondLa trilogy. These were created for the Japanese editions. I'd love to fully colorize all three books someday...
I've been gathering developmental sketches and process work for an upcoming @imaginefx article and came across these early art samples for "The Search for WondLa" from 2009. Some of these made into the final book, others did not. I'll share some more design work this week.🎨
The WondLa deep dive continues with these early samples of finished art.🎨I was trying to figure out the visual style and what materials would work best. Some of these images were developed into final illustrations for the book others are shown here for the first time. 🤓📚🎨
10 years ago I was on planet Orbona creating visuals for Eva Nine’s story “The Search for WondLa”. These character development sketches were referenced throughout my writing process. I was inspired by turn-of-century lithography and the comic book genius, Jean Giraud “Moebius”.
Another colorized image from WondLa done for the Japanese editions. This is from the 3rd book, 'A Hero for WondLa'.
In 4 days time, Eva Nine's search for #WondLa will lead her through uncharted territory.