BC Kids Summer Reading Club!

This year I have had the opportunity to be the illustrator of the British Columbia Library Association’s Kids Summer Reading Club.  The B.C. Summer Reading Club (SRC) is a provincially-funded program which encourages children to read books throughout the summer vacation.

I have a new Tumblr Account where I will post the images of the process of creating the poster that will be printed this year. In the future I plan to post more process images there.

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Suspense

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Forward

Mike Deas Illustration Old truckClick to Enlarge!

Grounded

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Happy New Year!

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Merry Christmas!

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Dalen and Gole Webcomic: The Process

Below I describe the process I use creating the weekly web-comic on dalenandgole.com!
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I start by roughing out the comic in blue using a Col-Erase pencil. I sometimes do a really rough thumbnail sketch before I launch into this stage.

DalenAndGole_WebComicProcess2Next I ink the comic using a Number 2 Winsor & Newton series 7 sable brush and Speedball India Ink.

DalenAndGole_WebComicProcess3Then I scan the comic into the computer and remove the blue pencil lines from the image leaving just the black lines. On a Wacom screen I color in flat colors before shading.

DalenAndGole_WebComicProcess4On top of the flat colors I paint in shading. Then I overlay watercolor washes to add some texture leaving me with the final result:

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More comics can be read at dalenandgole.com!

November 2011 Canadian Reader…

Below are Illustrations from this month’s Canadian Reader published by Les Plan. The top one is for an article about the 75th Birthday of the CBC, and below that is a portion of this month’s comic Did You Know, featuring the Canadian Space Agency.

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