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 [...]
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 [...]
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…..
It’s Promo Time Again
It’s that promo time of year again and I’ve been working on this year’s submissions. Most of them are in production now and will soon be on their way to the printer. Here’s a piece that didn’t quite make the cut. You might remember it from an earlier post. I had hoped to use it [...]
Mini Canvas
I’ve been having a lot of fun with these mini canvases lately. Here’s one I did with my Jerry’s class. These things are great. Our theme for the last class was Under the Sea (I thought it would be fun to do a snail). We used acrylic paint, sharpie markers, clear gel medium, sand and [...]
Help, There’s a Gator in my Tub!
I started this one on Ustream a little while ago. Just about ready to wrap it up. Thought you guys might like to see where I’m at. I’ll add the last step tomorrow…
Sketchbook then Off for Repair
My computer has not been feeling well this week. It’s been shutting itself off and restarting randomly. I have no idea what’s wrong or how long it will take to fix so so it’s off to the Apple store today. Hopefully it’s nothing too serious and I won’t be out of action for too long. [...]
