Color

On to my second skillshare class with Brad Woodward ...this time we are talking about color.

Did you know that Adobe has a crazy colorwheel web page you can play around with to create color palettes??  Never saw this before. It is wild!

There is also a neat and quick tutorial on color palettes here.

Apparently these are great books that I need to look into...one on pantones and one on modern design and  color.

sketching and creativity

I started a really interesting Skillshare class by Brad Woodward today. He included some great references related to his class. I hope it's okay to make a record of them here so I can go back to them.

Firstly - a neat video on creativity. It's posted on Brad's blog, which is another wonderful reference by the way.  Along with this link were others that took me to a neat post on sketching, a post on sketching as a visual power tool, and a post on Inspiration vs. Imitation.

It's a great class so far, I'm really looking forward to it. Check it out at Skillshare.

**Please note this image was created by Brad Woodward, copied from his blog post here.

number five bus

So how cool is it to be a fly on the wall to an email conversation between two (or three) bookmakers?  So cool right?!  It almost sounds too good to be true, but no - check out number five bus where Phil and Erin Stead do just that!

experimenting

I have been reading a really neat interview between Matt Cordell and Phil Stead.  In it, Matt talks about his exploration of materials and line quality.  I have found it a fascinating read.

They have written/illustrated a children's book together - definitely one to check out!

"Line quality and line character has been my thing as an illustrator from day one. And it’s been a huge learning curve. Still is. I’m very hard on myself about it. Trying to figure out what kind of line I want, how to get to that line, and being satisfied with what I end up with. I’ve played around with some other things too. For one book, Gone Fishing, I used about 10 different sharpies, all of which were in varying states of drying up. I used a different sharpie for different parts of a drawing, depending on the relationship I had with that sharpie. I started out doing this, just to get a feel for sketching with a heavier line, because I knew the end result was going to be a heavy line. But then I liked what was happening with these sharpies, so I used my sketches as my final line (with a tiny bit of photoshop doctoring)."