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Original Christmas Light

This fall I had a really exciting opportunity that I'm really excited to share you with, and I hope that it really excites you too. Wait...that deserves an exclamation point or three. !!! After lots of sketching, digital drawing, and revisions, today I get to show you what I was working during the last few months! Perfect, because O is for Original Christmas Light.

A local author found me through a mutual contact and asked me if I would be interested in illustrating his book. (And by local, I mean extremely local. After we had been talking about the project for a while, and then finally got together for a meeting, I found out that he lives a block away from me!)

Original Christmas Light
Original Christmas Light

The book is written for children and is all about lights. Especially Christmas lights, and one Christmas light in particular. Of course I was delighted to work with him, and I'm so pleased with how it has turned out.

Very soon, we will have a website and we hope to make this available as an e-book with the possibility of other things. When it's ready, I'll share more information, but I just couldn't wait any longer to show you all!

Original Christmas Light

13 comments:

  1. That's fantastic! Congratulations!

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  2. Anonymous10:32 AM

    Wow, that's so cool! Congrats!

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  3. Congratulations!! Your illustrations look awesome!

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  4. Awesome news! Can't wait to see it, and what a SMALL world!
    Jen :)

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  5. That's so exciting Mollie! What a lovely opportunity.
    The illustrations look really cute.

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  6. Anonymous2:54 PM

    Nice! A local author has asked me to embroider the cover of a book. I failed art in college (loooong story, but yes) but she still asked me to embroider something for the cover.

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  7. How exciting! Congrats! :) xoxo Kim

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  8. That baby would be a great ornament.... just thinking out loud, here....
    :) Caren

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  9. Thank you all so much! And Caren, there might be something similar to your idea coming in December...just sayin...

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  10. Ohmygoodness! Congratulations! Your illustrations are bright and lovely!

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  11. Kelly7:04 AM

    Mollie,
    These illustrations are wonderful! What a neat way to use your creative God-given talents to give glory to him.
    Being extremely dinosaurish in all things technical, how exactly does one illustrate digitally? I'm always amazed when you let us in on your creative process and show sketches and then the final product. How does paper/pencil translate into digital cuteness?

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    1. Thanks, Kelly! It really is an honor to have these gifts and opportunities to use them!

      There are lots of ways to illustrate digitally, and my methods change depending on what I'm creating. In this case, I sketched with pencil, scanned the drawings, then drew over them on the computer. I used a combination of drawing "tools" depending on the precision I was going for. After each illustration was complete, I placed it on the canvas you see in the background and used an effect to "blend" it over the background so you see the texture through the art.

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  12. Congratulations! The illustrations look great, and the book itself sounds fun too. If you're looking for bloggers with almost no readers but a really cute preschooler to review at some point, let me know, lol. ;)

    My favorite kids' books are always the prettiest ones (assuming the story is good too, of course!)

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