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 the meantime I’ve [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Creating Characters for a Children’s Book
I illustrate quite a few books each year but I hardly ever get to show you guys the development process that goes into it. Most things are under contract and I can’t show them until they’ve been published (sometime that can take up to a year). Like most artist and illustrators I have about a [...]
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 [...]
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…..
Halloween = Monster Art
It’s almost Halloween and you know what that means… time for monster art. I love drawing monsters. They’re one of my favorite things to draw and with Halloween right around the corner I thought it would be a great time to post a few monster drawings. I’ll be adding more monsters to this post all [...]
