This is an illustration for Half-Past Summer, a trio of fantasy short-stories for children (and child-like grownups). I haven’t done much with ink before, but I really like it. One of the things Dan Dos Santos hammered into my head during the IMC was the importance of value studies. Working with ink and silhouettes forces me to think in nothing BUT values.
Half-Past Summer will be available on Kindle at the beginning of August.
I love this illustration. It’s a classic look that reminds me of very old children’s literature.