Illustrated book sketches

It has been few weeks, and I haven't put in any sketches of my work in this post..I guess there's a lot to talk here but I'll keep it short, lets get straight to the point. I'm creating my own story together with few idea and concept from David and Goliath story. My story would be a little random and humor, something like Adventure time! My will apply some moral values inside, so that it won't be out of context where at least there's something meaningful other wise no point reading it, right?

My first attempt of creating a main character with water colours
the blue reminds me of Avatar, Lilo & Stitch. I didn't choose it for my project.
My colour scheme for this project (top left)

This is the chosen one, the colour is mild and it help me to bring out the main character's personality

The human father

Evan's best friend Lucy the floral

The frog, the colour results are no I want, it's part of my journal

My story would be quite a long script, our tutor expects us no to focus too much on the writing because we're not the writer. Summary of the story will do, I'll send my script to my friend which her writing is very good and I'll post up here so do stay tune :)

Here's part of the story, the main character called Evan and his whole family is actually mutants. Their species are cold reptiles, they can breath in the water so the air. His parents has the ability to transform into human form so that they could blend into the human world and that's what they are hoping for. Evan born in a mutants form because he hasn't learn how to transform into human form yet.The father gave him a kiss of talent which is the wisdom of saliva where in the future he could use it to protect himself and help the world. Where else Lucy; Evan's best friend, they meet each other since they were young. Lucy grows at the forest fulls of floral, she is very attachable to Evan because he could give her the moisture and she'll grows flowers on her body. When old enough she has to take care of the whole forest on the earth. I'll continue the story later on. The medium that I'm using is water color later on I'll scan in and edit in the computer. Well, I prefer traditional medium this could help me to balance up with digital editing. I suppose to say that it's actually fun to do this kind of project and I'm able to improve my skills at the same time :)

My current illustration journey

Once, I open up the new post sometimes a lot of things go through my mind and I don't know where to start. One of my concern is that my writing isn't good, you may find my grammar or sentence constructions are not properly written. Well, bare in mind that I'm still improving my English writing and actually I like readings just the writing part I guess I have to keep writing. I'm glad that my friends around will correct me sometimes :)
Speaking of illustration, you could see my blog name is Susanne's Bare hand Creation which means I've got to share what I've got in this blog. Sorry if I didn't talk about myself at first cause I'm just too excited to look around illustrator's work and they gave me motivation. I've to say that no rush for here, everything can be build slowly. I don't think I mention about my illustration style and so on, but I did mention about my struggles while in the progress of building confidence on drawing. Well, this time I'm not going to complain about my illustration skills anymore cause there's no point to angry or disappointing about it. Emotion doesn't cure anything only cover our eyes on looking at the bright side. At least, I'm not too late to realize that, until now I always seeking possibilities to solve the problems that I have. For example, I'm struggling with illustrating human beings with a pencil. Maybe the strokes or the shapes didn't show the results that I want so I try to sketch a little messier and more curvy lines.

Few sketches that I did when I'm having semester break or free time

 Exploring itself can help me find ways to improve, you may find out that I use words like explore, exploration a lot. The term itself may represent me, because I'm just curios things around me. I realized some of illustrators works are very children-ish which some how I think realistic subjects couldn't replace those kind of illustration even realistic paintings. For instance, Mogu Takashi : her works are "pop-zen", her style is simple, clean, childish and pop colors. It's not realistic anymore, it's more like a new era or solution for kids and her works attracted numbers of kids, I think it's worth to show kids how illustration can be done in variety ways.

Children were attended her workshop