Time For another Speed Draw!

July 24, 2021June 22, 2021Leave a comment

Hey, I’m back with another speed draw! Today I want to talk about colours! Colouring in an illustration can one of the most fun yet frustrating things. What worked for me, is before even starting, I made a quick model sheets of the main characters and locked in the colours and design. Feel free to try all sorts of colours. Personally, I love bright and/or pastel colours, I like how it helps the line work stand out, but that’s just my personal taste. Once I had the main character’s colours locked in, I found it easier top pick the background colours. I needed the background colours to be darker than the main character so the main character would stand out. Where I could, I put colours into different layers so I could change it if it didn’t fit in with the others. Colour pallets help a lot when illustrating, I only had the fox’s colours since it was the only reoccurring character. Consistency is super important both in animation and illustration, especially if the image (or frame) is a follow up of the one before.

Anyway, What’s your favourite colour? Do you have just one or lots? Feel free to leave a comment in the section below.

What’s Behind That Door? Created by Hannah Rosie.

You can find my book at the attached links:

ISBN (Hard cover): 978-0-6451603-0-7

Target, Amazon, Booktopia, Dymocks

ISBN (Paper back): 978-06451603-1-4

Booktopia, Amazon,

ISBN (ebook): 978-06451603-2-1

Amazon, Booktopia

😀 Thank you so much for your support! This book won’t be here without your encouragement! 😊 Keep an eye on this website because I have a lot more speed draws and art to come! 😀 Peace out! ✌😉

What’s Behind That Door?

July 10, 2021June 22, 2021Leave a comment

Hey, I’m back with another speed draw! This time I’m going to talk about the hardest and trickiest thing to draw, the front cover. Have you ever heard the saying ‘don’t judge a book by it’s cover’? Unfortunately, we still do judge books by their covers, it’s how we decide whether it’s worth our time. A book’s cover is what draws people in, it’s just like those sample taste testers you get in the supermarket. We buy with our eyes. It’s what took me so long to draw up a front cover, because in my mind it needed to be perfect. Something I’ve learnt through all of this, is that it’s ok to not to illustrate and draw the cover first, make the rest of the book first and come back to it. I’ve also learnt to try new things, draft our a few designs 1 to 5, and pick the best layout. The rest will come to you later. You might even find that once you start drawing it more ideas will come up or you will find more things to add or change. The possibilities are endless, anyway what I was trying to get at is just simply start.