[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-books-and-birdsong":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"I'm playing around here with character design for my contribution to the \u003Ca href=\"http://community.livejournal.com/birdsong_comic/\">Birdsong/Songbird anthology\u003C/a>. I've been crazy busy with picture book work and haven't started it yet, except to take a few reference photos, so I might be putting things up here for it as morning sketches. I like this little person so far, she's a nice mix of comfortable and a bit wary.\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/birdsong_char1-33cc712f19.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThanks for all the happy birthdays, I had a lovely quiet evening. Stuart gave me an amazing Chris Wormell lino cut print. (We don't have it yet, it's on display at the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.illustrationcupboard.com/exhibition_details.aspx?eId=134\">Illustration Cupboard until 12 Sept\u003C/a>. But it's very lovely!) And Bridget my Shoe Sister and I did a shoe swap, although I only sent one pair to her in Cambridge and she gave me a whole bag full (one pair of platform heels makes me 6'4\"!), plus this amazing book she and Woodrow bought at my favourite shop in Brussels, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.tropismes.com\">Tropismes\u003C/a>. The two of them were visiting for Woodrow's part in the exhibition \u003Ca href=\"http://www.brusselscomics.com/en/event.cfm?events_ID=36\">In Search of the Atom Style\u003C/a> (running at the Brussels Atomium until 20 Sept). \\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/hortense1-0c75df7110.jpg\">\\r\nThe book's about a bat, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.albin-michel.fr/fiche.php?EAN=9782226189431\">\u003Ci>Hortense au plafond\u003C/i>\u003C/a> (Hortense on the ceiling), and you can read the book right-side up or upside-down, from the bat's point of view. How cool is that! \\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/hortense3-32f3f63591.jpg\">\\r\nI still have to make my way rather laboriously through the French text, but the amazing pictures and setup make me know it will be totally worth it.\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/hortense2-8547ba2d82.jpg\">\\r\nI haven't found a website for the creator, \u003Cb>Aurore Callias\u003C/b> yet, but you can see \u003Ca href=\"http://www.timotheerolin.net/fr/photos/person/aurore-callias/\">some photos of her in her studio here.\u003C/a>","2009-08-20T09:43:00.000Z","books-and-birdsong",[],"books and birdsong",1776628733149]