The Fox-cub and Seed
The Illustrations and children's book layouts design
A very cute project has included the creation set of hand-drawn illustrations and children's book layout design. First of all, I was working on the creation of illustrations style and I made three options (one is a watercolor option, a second is a digital art, and third is a chose variant watercolor pencils mix with dry color pencils).
The next step was drawing full pack arts with extensive research on compositions and color options.
The seamless pattern for flyleaf in two color variations
Also, I was wondering about the creative layouts for the pages without colorful illustrations. The idea was to use flat pastel shapes and collage elements from the flyleaf of a book pattern (the similar graphic techniques I used in text block backgrounds) to keep the book authentic.
For the implementation of this project, I was using Adobe Photoshop (for isolated and color adjustment), Adobe Illustrator (for design book layout, print preparing, vectorization of pastel textures and creating of lettering book's name "Лисёнок и Семечко"), watercolor and dry pencils, Epson V370 Photo for hi-rez scan of hand-drawn illustrations.
The process
The sketches and working process photos
The set of hand-drawn Illustrations for a seamless pattern background of flyleaf
The finished version of illustration for the cover
The results
The double-page spreads
The one-color background with hand-drawn blobs and collage elements
The start of a fairy tale. The seed wakes up in the morning
There is fox-cub try to meditate. A seed is learning him peace of mind
The multicolor hand-drawn illustration (watercolor pencils, dry pencils, watercolor paper)
The abstract graphics of warm sunny sphere
There is a seed is growing up episode
The pastel drawings of rainy clouds with drops-seeds
The episode when the fox-cub and seed go to the valley
There is fox-cub try to meditate. A seed is learning him peace of mind
The bright illustration of fairy tale mountains, river and fields
The culmination with fox and seed ( a tree )
