This is part 5 of Creating Characters for a Children’s Book. My homework for today was to begin putting together thumbnails for my interiors.
My thumbnails are coming along nicely. Since this book is 24 pages it will take a little bit of time for me to get through them all. In [...]
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Creating Characters for a Children’s Book – Part 5
Creating Characters for a Children’s Book – Part 4
This is part four in the series Creating Characters for a Children’s Book. In case you missed the other three here’s a quick review. Characters are all approved. Color is complete on two and the third one is underway. Based on the story line I thought it would be cool to add a donut to [...]
Creating Characters for a Children’s Book Part 3
This is part three of Creating Characters for a Children’s Book. If you’ve missed parts one and two here’s a quick recap. I’ve been working on the characters for a new children’s book. One of the characters is done, another is in the color stage and one still needs a little bit of work.
Last night [...]
Creating Characters for a Children’s Book. Part 2
Good news readers… my sketches were approved!
If you follow along with my blog you’ll remember in yesterday’s post I showed you the beginning stages of how I create the characters in the children’s books I work on. This is part two of Creating Characters
( In today’s episode I will be playing the parts of [...]
Cinco de Junius
I met Seth way back when he began his first podcast, Jack Wakes Up. Seth was one of the earliest writers to begin pod casting his work on iTunes and I’ve been a fan ever since. Some of you might remember our interview with Seth on Answers for Freelancers back in the early 1950’s. Seth [...]
Bob at Jerry’s Artarama.
Had a great time at Jerry’s yesterday. As usual I met a bunch of great folks and had a lot of fun painting. The theme for the day was Bats so I chose to paint one of my favorite super heroes.
I was using the Matisse Primary set of acrylic paints. I’d never used this brand [...]
Art Demo at Jerrys Saturady 1-4PM March 27th
I will be at Jerry’s Artarama in Raleigh on Saturday March 27th from 1:00pm until 4:00pm. Please stop by and say hello if you are in the area. I’ll be working with acrylic paints on a large canvass. I haven’t quite figured out what I’ll be painting just yet but I know it’ll be big [...]
From the Sketchbook.
It’s been pretty busy here at Bob Ostrom Studio lately. I’m at the tail end of a very large project so there is a lot to be done. Thought I’d load up a few sketches from the Official Bob Ostrom Studio Sketchbook….
Tonight’s theme: Fish.
Enjoy…..
Interview with Illustrator Bob Ostrom And Author Mary Jane McKittrick
I’ve been working on a series of kids books with super talented author/creator Mary Jane McKittrick. There are 3 books in the series so far with several more in the works.
One of the characters in the books, Zuhma Talmadge, is the editor of the local paper in Shady Pines. This is a fun little interview [...]
Tara Reed talks to Expert Daniel Tardent about SEO.
If you ever had any questions about SEO you’ll want to check out the excellent interview Tara Reed did with SEO expert Daniel Tardent. This interview definitely gets the Bob Ostrom Studio Seal of approval. It answered a lot of nagging questions I had about SEO and best of all I didn’t have to run [...]
