[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-seawigs-part-6-the-crisp-family-home":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Some more step-by-step drawings from \u003Ci>Oliver and the Seawigs\u003C/i> work in progress. First, a thumbnail sketch. That's supposed to be Mrs & Mr Crisp and Oliver in their Explorermobile, but I hadn't decided what it would look like at that point, so I just drew it as a blob.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seawigs_ch1_3d_zps4363f14f-fe08bb98bc.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThis one's a more detailed pencil rough. The picture changed a lot from the original thumbnail doodle; I thought I could make the composition more sweeping and dramatic, since it's the first time Oliver sees his new house.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seawigs_rough_ch1_3c_zpsa80a3cc0-b6b917893f.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more Seawigs process pictures under the cut!-->\\r\nHere's the inked version. It's not a complete drawing; I scanned this, then added more elements in Photoshop.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seawigs_ch1_3b_zps6851acb8-fd1332790e.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd here's the final version! Do you like it? I'm rather pleased with how it came out.\\r\n \\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seawigs_ch1_3a_zps3131b766-894e90ed14.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nI tried to put in lots of fun little details to spot. And off on the right, by the house, there's a pile of rocks, known on Dartmoor as a 'tor'. There are loads of tors around where the \u003Ci>Seawigs\u003C/i> writer \u003Ca href=\"http://www.philipreeve.blogspot.co.uk/\">Philip Reeve\u003C/a> lives, and they're the most amazing natural sculptures. Here's a photo from a day when we were out oh the moor, being explorers.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartmoor_oct11_13-74e729f518.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nYou might recognise the Harley-campervan mash-up from \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/493835.html\">an earlier blog post\u003C/a> about designing the Explorermobile.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seawigs_explorermob_mach5-02dc92ac29.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI based the house on my aunt and uncle's family fishing cottage in Seldovia, Alaska. The houses on stilts there are so fun to draw:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seldovia4-4fe5e86d6b.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nYou can see \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/215412.html\">more photos and drawings from Seldovia here\u003C/a>, it's such an amazing place.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seldv1-be0e957229.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's another question. Feel free to chip in yours among the comments, and I can try to answer them as I write these posts! Here's one from illustrator \u003Ca href=\"http://illustratorpod.co.uk/\">Alex Paterson\u003C/a>:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/alexpaterson_tweet_zpsbae55b78-8c9b5eb555.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHi, Alex! When I drew the thumbnails, I just used standard A3 printer paper. But when I did the pencil sketch, I used \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartridge_paper\">cartridge paper\u003C/a> from Brighton-based \u003Ca href=\"http://www.seawhite.co.uk/online/index.php?route=product/category&path=69_150\">Seawhite\u003C/a>. It's pretty much the cheapest drawing paper you can buy that's still good quality, and my old art college (Camberwell) sells sketchbooks of its paper in the college shop, which I still use. When I was drawing the black lines for \u003Ci>Vern and Lettuce\u003C/i>, I used cheap printer paper, which was thinner and therefore easier to trace on the light box. But I can just about see through this Seawhite paper. I buy it in big packs from \u003Ca href=\"http://www.johnpurcell.net/\">John Purcell Paper\u003C/a>. (They're based in Stockwell and they deliver! I didn't know this for awhile, and hauling it from Brixton on two buses was a nightmare. Especially in a high wind, it would flap like a sail.) \\r\n\\r\nHere's how I store the big packs of paper, next to my messy desk. I designed that slotted red box to fit the packs of paper exactly, and my friend \u003Cb>Eddie Smith\u003C/b> built it for me. (I hope the paper mills don't ever change the paper size!)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/messy_desk_studio_zpsd19b177f-0a2a237869.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nStay tuned for more \u003Ci>Oliver and the Seawigs\u003C/i> blog posts!\\r\n\\r\nOne more thing: congratulations to my friend \u003Cb>Caroline Smith\u003C/b>, who appeared with a bunch of doctors and surgeons and things from Lewisham NHS Trust in \u003Ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01mydfk/The_Choir_Sing_While_You_Work_Lewisham_NHS_Trust/\">last night's episode of The Choir\u003C/a> on BBC2. Fingers crossed as her choir battles it out with the Post Office singers and two other workplace choirs!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/Caroline_Smith_TheChoir_zps44d4cebf-1c7eb41d49.jpg\">","2012-09-21T07:16:00.000Z","seawigs-part-6-the-crisp-family-home",[],"seawigs part 6: the crisp family home",1776628724217]