tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25451525420616572542024-03-13T10:21:51.239-04:00Steven Salerno BlogNYC based illustrator Steven Salerno... comments on creating his illustration images for magazines, print & web advertising campaigns, children's picture books, product packaging, etc... Steven Salernohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04901327528387456852noreply@blogger.comBlogger148125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545152542061657254.post-8507868887415058162019-08-06T15:37:00.004-04:002019-08-06T16:03:55.520-04:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can still continue to read about my projects creating illustrations for magazines, advertising, packaging, and picture books for kids on my <b>illustration blog</b> located directly on my web site! </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Thanks to everyone who has been following my blog posts here on blogger.com...</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <b>Please now follow my blog at its new location. I look forward to reading your comments!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>above</b> <b>Steven Salerno's</b> 2 recent picture books released in 2019</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few of my recent satirical political illustrations of our embattled President Trump, seemingly one step ahead of the accusations of Russian connections and business ties during the 2016 Presidential campaign... My usual body of work is illustrations for picture books, magazines and advertising, so it is interesting and fun to create these satirical critical images from time to time...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Note on process: </b>All of these illustrations were initially drawn using Adobe Illustrator (on a Wacom digital drawing tablet) and then I brought the drawings into Adobe Photoshop where scanned painted gouache textures were added as well as digital color (composed in layers) to create and finalize the competed illustrations.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>above: </b>President Trump taking a much needed break from all his Tweeting for a relaxing Russian steam... and exposing his various personal tattoos representing his key interests: money, real estate, golf, sexy women, and America. <b>Illustration by Steven Salerno </b>-visit <b><a href="http://www.stevensalerno.com/" target="_blank">stevensalerno.com</a></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>above:</b><i> King Donald</i> -Our President brandishing his little sword, wearing the finest royal outfit </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">embroidered in</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> gold. </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Illustration by Steven Salerno </b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-visit </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.stevensalerno.com/" target="_blank">stevensalerno.com</a></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>above:</b> The Donald, dragging the pesky extra weight of the <span style="text-align: left;"></span>Russian Collusion accusations behind him, adding even more stress onto the Republican ride. </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Illustration by Steven Salerno </b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-visit </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.stevensalerno.com/" target="_blank">stevensalerno.com</a></b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Posted here are a couple new illustrations I just created... </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">wherein I'm working out a bit of a slightly different technique..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Recently I've been noodling around with a new picture book story, about a tiny elephant named Ellis. And since I was at a point with the writing where I was stuck, I stepped away from the story for awhile and used the time to create these couple test illustrations -to help better define the characters from the story in my mind, and also ended up toying around with a new technique at the same time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Normally I create most of my illustrations by drawing and painting the various elements traditionally on paper -then scanning them all into Photoshop where I compose the various elements in tiered layers to make the final look of the illustration, including adding digital color. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But with these two test "Ellis" illustrations posted below I drew the characters directly in Adobe Illustrator (on a Wacom tablet) using a variety of their "charcoal" drawing tools... then brought those Adobe Illustrator drawings into Photoshop where I added in scanned painted gouache textures to help make the look of some of the elements in the final illustration, plus painted color digitally, too. (for example the background trees in the top illustration).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">mock cover illustration for ELLIS... </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">visit stevensalerno.com</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aside from my illustration work for magazines, advertising and picture books for kids, -because of my personal interest in the great game of golf, additionally I also create golf related art and graphics. ...Above is my recent drawing I created of one of my golf legends heroes, Ben Hogan, the American superstar from the 1940's and 1950's. It depicts Hogan in 1953 playing at the Open Championship (that's the "British Open" for you non-golfers) at the Carnoustie Golf Links in Scotland... Of course, I referred to a specific b&w photo from the actual event. I created this original drawing in Adobe Illustrator, then brought it into Photoshop where I scanned in my painted gouache textures to create the background sky, clouds, and ground, plus painted the watercolor-looking color and texture digitally. Posted here is the full image and a few close-up views...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1953 was a big year for Hogan. In April he won the Masters, in June he won the US Open Championship (his 8th & 9th major championship victories), and in July he played in the Open Championship, held that year at Carnoustie. (It was his one and only time competing in an Open Championship) Hogan was tied for the lead after the third round, then shot a course record in the 4th round to win the championship. (His 10th major championship victory in his career and his last.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As an illustrator, I'm definitely <i>not </i>known as a political satirist at all... in fact over the past 18 years I have been mostly involved with illustrating and writing picture books for kids which is decidedly at the opposite end of the artistic spectrum relative to political satire... However earlier in my graphics career I had quite a number of assignments from magazines and newspapers to illustrate various articles criticizing and poking at the politicians of the day... with probably my most notable client being <i>The New York Times Op/Ed Page </i>where I created drawings for articles on President Reagan and his policies... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A recent illustration of our current <i>Commander in Tweet</i>, President Donald Trump, that I created just for my own amusement (it was not a publication assignment), as I felt compelled to create a satirical image of him which reflected his charming character... So I depicted him in a Russian Bath House, perhaps taking time out from his busy golf schedule to take a steam and get some more private Twitter time... we see him in all his orange-ish birthday suit glory revealing his various tattoos which highlight his hierarchy of obsessive interests: money, real estate, sexy women, golf, and America. (I was inspired by the bath house scene from the film, <i>Eastern Promises</i>...) With the tattoos and dark glasses I feel I captured the essence of his thuggish behavior. (FYI: it was drawn in Adobe Illustrator, then brought into Photoshop for additional painting and digital coloring)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A recent illustration I created for <span style="color: #0b5394;"><a href="http://www.inxart.com/" target="_blank">INXart</a> </span>(editorial art service) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">commenting on the meeting that took place between President Trump and Kim Jong Un... a sort of benign sword fight played out for the media and the masses... </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(FYI: it was drawn with crayon, then brought into Photoshop for additional painting and digital coloring)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #336699;"><em><strong>> </strong></em></span><em><strong>Tim's Goodbye</strong></em><em><strong> </strong></em><br /><span style="color: #336699;"><strong>-written and illustrated by</strong> <strong>Steven Salerno</strong>. (<strong>Farrar Straus Giroux</strong>)</span><br /><span style="color: #336699;">Margot and her friends mysteriously come together, then, by way of a visual twist within the illustrations, the reader discovers the kids have gathered to express their heartfelt goodbye to a beloved pet that has died.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: dimgrey;"><em><strong> </strong></em></span><br /><span style="color: #336699;"><em><strong>> </strong></em></span><em><strong>PASS GO </strong></em><strong>And Collect $200 -The Real Story of How MONOPOLY was Invented </strong><br /><span style="color: #336699;"><strong>-written by Tanya Lee Stone and illustrated by</strong> <strong>Steven Salerno. </strong>(<strong>Christy Ottaviano Books-Henry Holt & Company</strong>) non-fiction<br />How Lizzie Magie invented the basic game concept in 1903 naming it <i>The Landlord's Game</i>, and then independently years later Charles Darrow contributed streamlined changes to the game concept that he renamed MONOPOLY -all of which that lead to its broad popularity and success when distributed by The Parker Brothers game company.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #336699;"><br /></span><span style="color: #336699;"><strong><em>> </em></strong></span><strong><em>PRIDE</em> -The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag </strong><br /><span style="color: #336699;"><strong>-written by Rob Sanders and illustrated by</strong> </span><strong style="color: #336699;">Steven Salerno. </strong><span style="color: #336699;">(</span><strong style="color: #336699;">Random House</strong><span style="color: #336699;">) non-fiction</span><br /><span style="color: #336699;">The story of San Francisco politician and early gay-rights activist Harvey Milk, who was murdered in 1978, including his role in the creation of the colorful iconic Rainbow flag.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Sidebar: </b>Over my long illustration career I've illustrated many books: cookbooks, novel covers, travel books, etc... and to date, I've also illustrated 24 popular picture books for kids, with</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 5 more picture book titles being released over the next three years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, it turned out that her project offer was for illustrating an adult fiction title</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Ghosts from Our Past</b></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> -the tongue-in-cheek guide to paranormal activity. This book would be published quickly, for release in July 2016 in direct association with the much anticipated </span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">summer blockbuster SONY Pictures movie, <b>Ghostbusters</b>. (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ghostbusters™</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> & </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">© 2016 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.) </span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Ghosts from Our Past </b></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was written as if penned by two main characters from the movie, paranormal activity researchers Erin Gilbert (played by </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kristen Wiig</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">) and Abby L. Yates (played by </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Melissa McCarthy</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And so Elizabeth explained to me that the final illustrations for this book needed to be created in a manner as if they were actual </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">sketches </i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">drawn by these fictional authors. This was a fun twist... plus, how could I turn down a project where I get to draw ghosts and monsters </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">and</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> it's associated with a famous film franchise? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course I accepted the project! But the deadline was tight. (I'd have to complete all 30 of the required illustrations in about a month.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I asked Elizabeth how she came to seek me out for this project, and she explained she had liked my <b><a href="http://www.stevensalerno.com/#a=0&at=0&mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=0&p=8" target="_blank"><span style="color: #783f04;">"<i>sci-fi character sketches</i>"</span></a></b> portfolio section on my illustration web site, and knew I'd be perfect for the <i>Ghosts from Our Past</i> project. (note: my </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sci-fi character sketches</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> are a collection of my doodles where I invent alien creatures, all just for my own amusement.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The essential requirements for the 30 illustrations needed for <i>Ghosts from our Past </i>was they needed to be rendered in <b>black & white</b> and <i>must</i> look like <i><b>sketches</b></i>. Now, with any illustration project I do, whether it be for advertising, or editorial, or publishing, my normal process is to first create the <b>preliminary sketches</b>, which are approved by the editor or design director, then I proceed with creating the <b>final illustrations</b>. However with this particular project my preliminary sketches (once approved) would be used <i>as</i> the final art for the book! In other words, the drawings purposely had to look a bit rough and unrefined, like a sketch. Skipping the normal "final art" rendering stage is what allowed me to meet their tight deadline!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I created the originals by simply drawing directly on paper -with pencil, crayon, or ink... then scanned all the drawings into Photoshop where with some of the drawings (on a separate layer) I created a digital gray wash, simulating a gray watercolor or diluted ink wash effect. </span></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Posted above are 7 (of the thirty illustrations) I created for the book. For purposes of this web post, I dropped the B&W drawings onto a buff colored background, just for better contrast against the bright white screen background.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was a fun project for sure. And once I finished it I was immediately right back working on my other children's books projects... Ultimately, because I was offered this project due to the editor seeing my </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sci-fi character sketches</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> portfolio, I may begin exploring other assignments related to my alien creature imaginings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Visit </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.stevensalerno.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #783f04;">stevensalerno.com</span></a></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> to view all my portfolio sections, as well as many of my picture books for kids.</span></div>
Steven Salernohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04901327528387456852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545152542061657254.post-19311264627211295072016-10-01T22:25:00.000-04:002016-10-01T22:26:27.315-04:00Arnold Palmer, the golf King forever...<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
A tribute to <b>Arnold Palmer</b> (1929-2016) </div>
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Posted here are two drawings I had created in the past of golfing great <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Arnold Palmer</span>, who passed away this week at age 87. </div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Because of my lifelong love for the game of golf, back in 2010 I launched a separate web site dedicated just to my many golf art drawings and paintings and limited edition prints, </span><b><a href="http://www.sasgolf.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #783f04;">sasgolf.com</span></a></b><span style="color: #444444;">. Arnold Palmer has always been one of my golf heroes, and I’ve been a huge fan all my life, especially after meeting him in person when I was 14 years old back in 1972. (my older brother had attended the Arnold Palmer Golf Academy at Stratton Mountain in southern Vermont that summer, and my father and I were invited to the opening day ceremonies where Arnie gave a clinic on the range and also played an exhibition round. It was a thrill to shake his hand and get an autograph, which I have to this day)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">In both these drawings I depicted Mr. Palmer in his very recognizable and distinctive putting stance.They were created with crayon, pastel, gouache and digital color. These two particular images are no longer available as limited edition prints, but there are many other golf fine art archival prints available for purchase at </span><a href="http://www.sasgolf.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #783f04;"><b>sasgolf.com</b></span></a><span style="color: #444444;">. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">To view my illustration portfolios for advertising, editorial, packaging, etc... including my many children's books, visit </span><b><a href="http://www.stevensalerno.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #783f04;">stevensalerno.com</span></a></b></div>
Steven Salernohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04901327528387456852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545152542061657254.post-22682589853545383772016-09-12T17:05:00.001-04:002016-09-12T17:05:05.980-04:00Sunday NY Times, recent illustration cover assignment (Real Estate section)<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Posted here is a look at a recent illustration assignment I did for <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The New York Times</span></i>, appearing on their REAL ESTATE section cover on Sunday 9/11/2016. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was for an article on new</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">apps </i><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that helps determine precisely which of NYC’s 288 various neighborhoods would make the best fit for you, based on your preferences and needs when moving to the city. The article was info-heavy, so as a visual counter balance I created the five boroughs as fun puzzle-shapes, and to reflect that these apps helps one determine which neighborhood in which borough would be the best</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">fit</i><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Then I added in various vignettes icons that echo the many points made in the article about client’s needs. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was created with a gouache painted texture that I layered into Photoshop for the background, then all the puzzle shapes and black & white vignette icons were all drawn digitally, including the lettering of the neighborhood names. All these elements were on separate layers so I could easily adjust all the elements within the composition.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started out as an illustrator in 1980, and one of my first clients was The NY Times... and I have created illustration work for them every year since. 36 years! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Posted here are some detail views of the finished illustration, the full view, and also a shot detail from the nytimes.com posting of the article and illustration. I actually have yet to see the</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">printed </i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunday Times with the illustration on the Real Estate section cover. </span></div>
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Steven Salernohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04901327528387456852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545152542061657254.post-90429101231510898172016-07-09T15:45:00.000-04:002016-07-09T15:45:31.749-04:00...more sci-fi creature designs<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As an illustrator, I am <i>so </i>busy with my children's picture book assignments... I had two more picture books released in 2015, and two more released in 2016, with four more picture books slated for release in the next couple years as well. To date I think I've had about 25 picture books published. They are challenging and satisfying... (visit <b><a href="http://stevensalerno.com/"><span style="color: #783f04;">stevensalerno.com</span></a></b> to view some of my many picture books for kids)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">But I still have time to doodle and create art images for my own, some of which are </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">alien creature sketches. </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">I enjoy imagining what a creature from another world might look like, and have created so many fanciful creature designs that I made a separate portfolio section on my illustration web site just to show them, even though they are not at all connected to any illustration assignments I do for my clients in magazines, advertising and publishing -that is until earlier this year...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back in January I was contacted by a publisher who was creating a book for a major motion picture company's new sci-fi film -to be released this year. (The reason why I am not giving names as to the publisher, the movie studio, or the name of the sci-fi film, is because I signed a confidentiality agreement. So right now I cannot divulge that info.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Their project would require creating illustrations as if they were <i>sketches </i>drawn by a character from the film... Somehow the art director at the publishing house saw my "sci-fi" creature sketches on my illustration web site, and subsequently showed them to the people at the movie studio, and based on my creature designs I was offered the project of illustrating their book, which is a companion book to their movie. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The images posted here are NOT from the soon-to-be-released book... just examples of some of the many creatures I have created. Lesson? Build it and they will come!</span><br />
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Steven Salernohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04901327528387456852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545152542061657254.post-14785840666347910752016-06-03T15:28:00.000-04:002016-06-06T11:36:19.165-04:00"Puppy Princess" -a new picture book title from Little Golden Books/Random House<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">…posted here is my cover illustration for the new picture book title, </span><b style="color: #333333;">Puppy Princess </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">-written by </span><b style="color: #333333;">Sue Fliess</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> & illustrated by </span><b><a href="http://www.stevensalerno.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #783f04;">Steven Salerno</span></a></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">. (publication release date: July 2016, <i>Little Golden Books/Random House</i>) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Puppy Princess</b> was my 24th illustrated picture book to date, with three more picture books slated for release in 2017 and 2018. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">When editor Diane Muldrow at </span><i style="color: #333333;">Random House</i><span style="color: #333333;"> offered me this project, I jumped at the chance to illustrate the charming </span><b style="color: #333333;">Sue Fliess</b><span style="color: #333333;"> story for very young readers and to become a part of the “</span><i style="color: #333333;">A Little Golden Book</i><span style="color: #333333;">” legacy. The illustrations for the book were created with crayon, charcoal, gouache with added digital composing and coloring. Even though the text does not describe the breed of the puppy in the story, when I first received the manuscript the author had noted that the puppy was a King Charles Spaniel, so that is how I depicted the puppy. (And it seems that there are many, many King Charles Spaniels where I live in Manhattan, so every time I was out for a walk I could always see one as additional visual reference in conjunction with the photo reference I had complied during my preliminary sketch stage.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>FYI:<i> </i></b><i>Little Golden Books</i> were first published by <i>Simon & Schuster</i> in 1942 (they opened with the simultaneous publication of 12 titles) and since then have published over 200 additional <i>Little Golden Book</i> titles, which have been owned and produced by <i>Random House </i>since 2001. Within those first 12 titles published back in 1942 was the popular book <b>The Poky Little Puppy</b> -which was so popular in fact, that it went on to sell over 15 million copies to date, making it one of the, if not not highest selling individual picture book in history. So needless to say, I am hoping that <b>Puppy Princess</b> will have some of that very same <i>puppy</i> success!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">Visit </span><b><span style="color: #783f04;"><a href="http://stevensalerno.com/">stevensalerno.com</a> </span></b><span style="color: #333333;">to see my many other picture books for kids, as well as my illustration portfolios for advertising, editorial, packaging, etc...</span></span></div>
Steven Salernohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04901327528387456852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545152542061657254.post-24474213327338375792016-05-25T14:39:00.001-04:002016-06-06T11:39:18.022-04:00The Kid from Diamond Street -the sketch & illustration process<div class="p1">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This post highlights the sketch and illustration process for the 2016 picture book, </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Kid from Diamond Street</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, written by </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Audrey Vernick</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, which was released back in April 2016. Our author-illustrator collaboration on her previous baseball themed true life picture book, </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Brothers at Bat </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in 2012</span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was such a success that our savvy and talented editor </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Jennifer Greene </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) wanted to team up Audrey and I again, especially since </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"The Kid"</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> was another true life baseball story. We are hoping </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Kid from Diamond Street</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> will be an even bigger home run hit than the 2012 </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Brothers at Bat</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back in 2012 </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Brothers at Bat</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> was released by publisher Clarion Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt -written by </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Audrey Vernick</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> At the time it was my 19th illustrated picture book... and proved to be a very popular picture book (I think thus far it has sold nearly 60,000 hardcover copies), and was named a </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Notable Picture Book of 2012 </i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by the New York Times Book Review -as well as being a </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Junior Library Guild Selection</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> for Spring 2012. It also won the prestigious </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">California Young Reader Medal in Picture Books </i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in 2015. See an earlier post on </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://stevensalerno.blogspot.com/2011/11/brothers-at-bat-my-next-illustrated.html" target="_blank">the making of the illustrations for </a><b><a href="http://stevensalerno.blogspot.com/2011/11/brothers-at-bat-my-next-illustrated.html" target="_blank">Brothers at Bat</a>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since 2012 I have illustrated seven more picture books:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2013- <b>Boom! </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2015- <b>The Fantastic Ferris Wheel </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Christy Ottaviano Books, written by Betsy Harvey Kraft) </span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://stevensalerno.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-fantastic-ferris-wheel-my-upcoming.html" target="_blank">see an earlier post on the making of the illustrations for this picture book</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2015- <b>Wild Child </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Abrams Books for Young Readers, written by Steven Salerno)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2016- <b>The Kid from Diamond Street </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, written by Audrey Vernick)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2016-<b> Puppy Princess </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Little Golden Books/Random House, written by Sue Fliess)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2017- <b>Goldenlocks and the Three Pirates </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Farrar Straus & Giroux, written by April Jones Prince)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2018-<b> Tim's Goodbye </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Farrar Straus & Giroux, written by Steven Salerno)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://stevensalerno.tumblr.com/picturebooklist" target="_blank">See a reverse chronological list of my picture books released to date.</a></b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></b><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Kid from Diamond Street</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"> was the third historical non-fiction true story picture book I have illustrated and they are such appealing picture book projects that currently I'm working on the sketches for yet another true story picture book for Penguin/Random House slated for a fall 2017 release.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is the true story of Philadelphia girl </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Edith Houghton</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, who back in 1922 at the tender age of ten became a professional baseball player for the </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Philadelphia Bobbies </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in the all-female professional baseball league! Then in 1925, at age thirteen, Edith was a star player on the all-female American baseball team that toured Japan, competing against their all-male baseball teams.Illustrating the story was a terrific opportunity to create images in the look and feel of the roaring '20's time period... </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">creating scenes with the style automobiles, trains, and ocean liners of that era, including the "flapper" style dresses, and of course the baggy baseball uniforms of the day. Not to mention depicting "old fashioned" typewriters, cameras, etc... </span></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">My initial tactic in conceiving the illustrations</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> for any picture book is to jump right in while reading the story manuscript that the editor sends over -by <b>doodling </b></span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">miniature sketches</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> directly into the margins of the manuscript while I read it... I do this because as I read the story's events and actions immediate images flood my mind regarding possible compositional approaches to the illustrations and the shorthand sketches help capture these initial ideas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shown below are eight views of these <b>miniature doodle sketches</b> that I draw into the manuscript as I read. They are literally just a couple inches in size…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The whole point of creating these miniature sketch doodles (above), which are nothing more than a kind of quick visual shorthand, is to rely on my initial gut instinct about how to approach illustrating the story. I create many, many of these little tiny sketches, getting closer and closer to figuring out how I will indeed approach composing the illustrations... Because they are so tiny I can get to the essence of the intended illustration -without wasting time rendering any details at all. These tiny doodle sketches are for my eyes only, being much too rough and premature for showing to the editor or art director anyway. <b>They are the very important imaging genesis which leads to the start of the formal sketch stage.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After formulating a general idea (with the tiny doodle sketches) as to what all the illustrations will consist of in terms of which actions are to be depicted from the text, how the illustration will be composed to accommodate the text, page turns, etc... <b>the next stage is to then begin creating somewhat larger (about 5"x7" or sometimes 8"x10") more detailed rough sketches</b> using the earlier tiny doodles as the visual springboard...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Below are </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">two sketches,</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> the first one being very rough, and the second a much more evolved, refined version where I am developing the more mature and hopefully final composition for the planned illustration. (The sketches are ink, pencil, and crayon on paper) </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">early rough sketch -draft 1, </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Kid from Diamond Street</b></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this scene the American women's baseball team in 1925 is traveling via steam ship across the Pacific Ocean to Japan, and one of Edith's teammates has joined the ballroom orchestra and is standing on a chair playing violin. While Edith, feeling sea sick, is sitting on the edge of the stage turning green.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Above is the further developed sketch with tones added, and expanded to become a double page spread. This is a spread scene, and you can see that I have composed an area in the top right side where the story text will be positioned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Above is the same sketch <b>with the dummy text blocked in</b>, to make sure that I have indeed allowed enough space for it. You can see that the darkened curtain area on the left side above the character's heads will also accommodate reversed-white text, too.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">final sketch, </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Kid from Diamond Street</b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Above is the modified <b>final sketch </b>and just below the sketch is <b>a detail view of the final illustration</b> vignette. Here I had decided to eliminate the full spread scene of the ballroom dancers on the right page side, to be able to add in a vignette of Edith teaching one of the cruise passengers to dance the latest 1925 dance craze, the "Charleston." This little descriptive dance lesson gem within the story was too evocative and fun to pass up illustrating. <b>This is the version sketch I considered final and ultimately was shown to the editor and art director and designer at the publishing house along with all the other final sketches.</b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Posted below are views of some of the preliminary sketches and their corresponding final sketches,</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> which were then presented to the publisher. The preliminary sketches are pencil, crayon and ink. The final sketches are also created with pencil, crayon and ink, but are then scanned into Photoshop and have additional washes of tones added digitally. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The above two sketches are the scene where we first meet baby Edith in the arms of her mother, <b>surrounded by her nine other siblings</b>, plus on the right side are three separate vignettes of Edith at age 3, 6, and 9…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The above two sketches are the scene where Edith first tries out for the </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Philadelphia Bobbies all-female professional baseball team</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> in 1922... Eventually though, in the final illustration, the many tiny faint vignettes of the various players were deleted, leaving just the three larger vignettes of Edith fielding and hitting…</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">preliminary sketch, </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Kid from Diamond Street</b></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The above two sketches are the scene where Edith is playing in a home game (she is at bat) and </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">her parents are in the stands</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> watching her. There is also a newspaper man in the stands clacking away on his typewriter on his lap (which as you can see he was not in the preliminary sketch version). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The above </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">two b&w sketches</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and the accompanying <b>two views of the</b> </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">final color illustration</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> are the scene where Edith is about to take her big travel adventure to Japan. She is ready with her bags, and behind her we see the intended path of her great journey: 12 days by train from Philadelphia to the west coast, then 13 days more by steam ship across the Pacific to Yokohama, Japan. 25 days halfway across the globe was a huge adventure for anyone at the time, </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">especially for a thirteen year old girl! </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the detail view of the final illustration you can see the texture of the painted gouache background which I compose into the final illustration via Photoshop layers.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">final sketch with dummy text, </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>The Kid from Diamond Street</b></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The above <b>three b&w sketches </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and the accompanying <b>three views of the</b> </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">final color illustration</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">are the scene where Edith and the American all-female baseball team have arrived in Japan, and are </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">taking rickshaws through the streets to their hotel</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Japan in 1925 had some people wearing traditional clothing and hairstyles and others in western suits and flapper style dresses of the day.... a clash of east meets west. <b>The American team really did ride rickshaws from the cruise ship to their hotel</b>, and in my research I found a blurry news photo from the day. That's why I also have a man with a film camera in the street watching the American team ride past him. So in order to create a plausible period illustration of the event I had to research the style of rickshaw of that time as well as the style of uniform the rickshaw pullers wore then, too. Not to mention the 1925 style automobile and the design of the license plate on the auto, the Japanese shop signs, etc...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">detail of final illustration, </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Kid from Diamond Street</b></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The above <b>two</b> <b>b&w sketches </b>and the accompanying <b>two views of the final color illustration </b>are the scene where <b>Edith is at bat </b>in the very first game in Japan, with the all-female American team competed against all-male Japanese teams. The American women won more games than they lost. Edith was the star short-stop and she was only 13 years old! In the detail view of the final illustration you can see the texture of the painted gouache background which I compose into the final illustration via Photoshop layers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Below is a view of the basic stages in compositing the final illustration. </b>Actually when I scan all the final drawn and painted elements into layers in Photoshop to create the illustration there are about thirty separate layers of various imaging elements, and probably a hundred stages in making the final illustration, but for purposes of brevity I have shortened it down to just 10 general stages for you to see the overall process... Not counting the sketch process, the time in making this completed final illustration is about a week, maybe a bit more. <b>It's the scene where Edith watches </b></span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">baseball games </b><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">from her bedroom window -played in the lot across the street from her home on Diamond Street on warm summer nights.</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The charcoal drawing above</b> is on an Arches hot press paper... I worked with charcoal rather than ink for the rougher texture, plus I can erase the charcoal fairly easily.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The added texture above</b> I painted with gouache on paper, purposely creating a rough dry-brush look... You cannot see it in these screen shots, but hints of this background texture are seen within the entire completed illustration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Above</b> I have added in another painted gouache texture that is like a sand pebble texture -which will serve as the infield dirt...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Above </b>I have painted in a suggestion of the infield grass digitally with a Photoshop brush tool.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Above </b>I have added in yet another painted gouache texture, a deep blue, which defines the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Above</b> I have now refined the character of Edith with color, which was accomplished with both digital color and also painted gouache texture too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Above </b>I added in the charcoal drawings of the baseball players on the ball field across the street from Edith's window, as well as the street poles and lamps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Above </b>digital color was added to the players, the autos, and the line stripes on the ball field.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Above</b> the glowing street lamp light was create with airbrush effect digitally.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Above </b>the flowing curtains </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in the summer breeze</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">were drawn in digitally with Photoshop.</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Above </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is a detail view of the final illustration. You can see the painted gouache background textures which really give depth and richness to the illustration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Below </b>are a number of </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">sketch details and sketch components </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">which all went into comprising the various final sketches…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The above eight sketches</b> are various details and elements which comprised the final sketches. The bottom sketch vignette is from the final scene of the story where Edith finally makes it back to her home in Philadelphia on Diamond Street and is hugged by her parents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The second from the top is a detail of the Japanese news photographer who insisted on taking a group photo of the American team's baseball cleat shoes... because the Japanese public was fascinated that the "girls" were wearing such athletic men's shoes and not wearing fashionable heeled women's shoes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Below are various views of </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">sketches and final drawings in progress on my drawing table or on my light box...</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The way I create my final illustrations is to make the final drawing elements with charcoal pencil & ink on paper and then scan those final completed drawings into Photoshop. I also paint various background color fields and textures with gouache on paper and also scan those elements into Photoshop as well... </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">working on final drawing using charcoal pencil, </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Kid from Diamond Street</b></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">working on final drawing using charcoal pencil, </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Kid from Diamond Street</b></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">working on final drawing using charcoal pencil, </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Kid from Diamond Street</b></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Above are <b>various views of sketches and final drawings in progress on my drawing table or on my light box...</b> The way I create my final illustrations is to make the final drawing elements with charcoal pencil & ink on paper and then scan those final completed drawings into Photoshop. I also paint various background fields and textures with gouache on paper and also scan those elements into Photoshop as well... </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">detail of final illustration, </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>The Kid from Diamond Street</b></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Above is detail of a final illustration </b>where we see Edith as baby with her parents. The family I rendered in sepia tones so that the full color baby Edith would stand out within the image.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">detail of final illustration, </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>The Kid from Diamond Street</b></i></td></tr>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Above is detail of a final illustration </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of a Japanese news photographer obsessed with getting a shot of the American all-female team wearing their baseball cleats! Of course, I had to research the film camera style used in 1925...</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Above is detail of a final illustration </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of the American all-female team aboard the Thomas Jefferson steam liner cruise ship that brought them to Japan in 13 day across the Pacific.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was a huge undertaking depicting the crowds on the docks, the passengers and the ship... all in the fashions of the era.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">final illustration, </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>The Kid from Diamond Street</b></i></td></tr>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Above is the full illustration </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of the ship scene</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> -double page spread in the book...with the text reversed in white, positioned in the lower right side in the ship's dark blue hull.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">detail of final illustration, </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>The Kid from Diamond Street</b></i></td></tr>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Above is detail of a final illustration </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of one of the baseball game scenes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The above nine images</b> are of some initial doodle sketches, rough sketches, refined sketches, and the final cover illustration... The initial doodle sketches conceptualize the basic possible look for the cover. In reality there are many other cover sketch ideas that get sketched then abandoned. The one shown here is the version selected by the editor and her team that actually made it as the final cover concept. The designer of this book, <b>Sharismar Rodriguez</b>, did such a wonderfully tasteful cover title design, and design of the entire book. Her cover title treatment feels contemporary yet also manages to fit the feel of the 1920's story at the same time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The total sketch stage, in the instance of this particular book, took me about two and a half months. Creating all the final illustrations took about four months. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I hope this post gives you an informative glimpse into my illustration process...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Little <b>Edith Houghton </b>of Philadelphia played professional baseball for all-female teams from age 10 up until about age 19. She was in the military... and later in her life became the first female baseball scout in Major League Baseball!</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Kid from Diamond Street</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> was released in April 2016 by Clarion Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Buy it in bookstores and on-line. Written by </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.audreyvernick.com/" target="_blank">Audrey Vernick</a></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and illustrated by</span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.stevensalerno.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Steven Salerno</span></a>.</b></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Visit my illustration web site, </span><b><a href="http://stevensalerno.com/" target="_blank">stevensalerno.com</a></b><span style="color: #b45f06;"> to see many more picture books I have illustrated for kids, as well as samples of my illustrations for advertising, magazines, newspapers, and packaging...</span></span></div>
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Steven Salernohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04901327528387456852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545152542061657254.post-71646941399545960872016-04-05T10:28:00.003-04:002016-05-26T14:22:20.678-04:00new Polar Bear story... doodles & sketches<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thus far in my career I've illustrated 24 picture books. (#23 is <b>"The Kid from Diamond Street" </b>written by Audrey Vernick/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and #24 is "<b>Puppy Princess" </b>written by Sue Fliess/Little Golden Books Random House -are both being released this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2017 I will have picture books #25 and #26 published... one of them being <b>"Goldenlocks and the Three Pirates" </b>written by April Jones Prince/Farrar Straus & Giroux) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But of all these published picture books, only four of the titles am I also the author:<b> "Coco the Carrot" </b> <b>"Little Tumbo" </b> <b>"Harry Hungry" </b> and most recently in 2015 for Abrams Books, <b>"Wild Child."</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I am always writing new picture book stories. Right now I'm writing one about a Polar Bear who travels from his home at the North Pole to try and find out why all the ice is melting and the days are getting warmer. Because I'm an illustrator, the great advantage is that as I am writing the story, even when it's still in a very rough preliminary draft stage, at the same time I can also be doodling and sketching the characters of the story, which sometimes can help me figure out how to shape the narrative. Posted here are a few sketches which are developing the look and feel of the bear character. They are all created with ink and digital color.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Visit<b><a href="http://www.stevensalerno.com/" target="_blank"> <span style="color: #783f04;">stevensalerno.com </span></a></b>to see my picture books as well as my illustration portfolios for advertising, editorial, food, etc...</span></div>
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<br />Steven Salernohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04901327528387456852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545152542061657254.post-62689657183932748492016-03-21T15:10:00.000-04:002016-03-21T16:02:58.934-04:00HOOT! (the owl illustration project that never got off the ground)<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the past 5 months I have been entrenched in my latest picture book project (<b>Goldenlocks and the Three Pirates</b> for publisher Farrar Straus & Giroux) and during this time I have very little extra time to also take on other peripheral illustration projects. So when I do, they are projects which are not tedious or too big, and I feel I can handle the time it will take to complete them....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>This post</b> is about an assignment I recently took on from a <b>design & branding firm</b> here in NYC... whose client is in the clean energy field. The thrust of the project was for me to design an <i><b>owl character</b> </i>who would appear on the client's new web site to act as an informational guide to their services. Once I designed the character the project was to also create five illustrations depicting the owl in various actions relative to five aspects of the client's provided service features. Here are the preliminary color sketches I presented...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-at this stage it was decided that the owl would be RED color.... one of five colors to be strictly used within a limited palette chosen by the design firm as part of the visual architecture of the client's web site...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The above sketches, 1 thru 5, are the initial character sketches I created.... #05 being the finalized version most like by the design firm at this stage. (This is all before anything is shown to the client)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The above sketches, 6 thru 9, are side versions created because the design firm now wanted to explore the concept of the owl looking more minimal and graphic, kind of like the google map locator icon...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The above sketches, 10 and 11 are additional side versions created because the design firm then wanted to explore the concept of the owl looking more naturalistic yet still stylized... Sketch #12 was sort of a hybrid between the naturalistic representation and the earlier initial sketch #05...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Above sketch #13 was created as the "final" sketch... because after seeing all the various versions the design firm felt that the final look should return back to looking more like the owl did in my initial sketches, using #03 as the reference to work off of.... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So sketch #13 was the character version presented to the client as what they felt should be <i>the </i>look of the owl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Long story short... the client rejected the entire look and thrust of the proposed newly designed web site presented by the design firm, and so the owl character as a concept was tossed out with the bath water...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>always</i> make sure and have your client sign an <i>assignment agreement contract</i> with you before even starting the project. And make sure that the contract has a <i>kill-fee clause</i> in place defining exactly how much your fee will be in the case of the project being terminated after you have completed the sketch stage. Which, of course, I did. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Visit <b>stevensalerno.com</b> to view my various portfolio sections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Steven Salernohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04901327528387456852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545152542061657254.post-7029218916267535552016-01-11T23:30:00.000-05:002016-01-11T23:33:36.463-05:00Arrrrgh! -a pirate spin to a classic children's book story<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My latest picture book project, well under way, is illustrating the April Jones Prince story <i style="font-weight: bold;">Goldenlocks and the Three Pirates. </i>It's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #191919; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the spirited retelling of the classic story of </span><i style="color: #191919; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Goldilocks and the Three Bears... </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #191919; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but this time with a fun pirate spin. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #191919; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I spent the fall months in 2015 completing all the preliminary sketches and getting approval from the publisher, <i>Farrar, Straus & Giroux... </i>and have been plodding along since the middle of November working on the final illustrations, essentially completing one spread a week. (There are about 16 spreads in all, plus the title page art and of course the cover art too) It will probably </span></span><span style="color: #191919; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">take me until the beginning of March to complete this project, my 25th illustrated picture book to date, and the first time working with FS&G (editor: the marvelous Margaret Ferguson)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #191919; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Posted here is a sneak peek at one of the completed finished illustrations.... actually a detail view, not the full image. It's of the main character, Goldenlocks, fast asleep in one of the pirate hammocks. It was created with a deep sepia crayon, gouache and additional digital color.</span><br />
<b><span style="color: #191919; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://stevensalerno.blogspot.com/2015/10/current-picture-book-project.html" target="_blank">view an earlier post about this project and view preliminary sketches.</a></span></b><br />
<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://stevensalerno.blogspot.com/2015/07/arrrrrgghhhh-pirate-themed-picture-book.html" target="_blank"><b>another earlier post here too!</b></a></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">detail from illustration </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Steven Salerno</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for</span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Goldenlocks and the Three Pirates </b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by April Jones Prince</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Goldenlocks and the Three Pirates </i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">slated for release in spring of 2017.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">And look for my next illustrated picture book </span><b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>The Kid from Diamond Street</i></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">in spring 2016!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Written by Audrey Vernick... our second picture book teamed together. It's</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"> the true story of remarkable Philadelphia girl </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Edith Houghton</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">… who became a professional baseball player at age ten, playing for the</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i> </i>Philadelphia Bobbies</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">, and at age thirteen (in 1925) Edith was star player on an all-female USA team that toured Japan and competed against that country’s college-level male baseball teams. As an adult Edith went on to become the first female scout in all of Major League baseball.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823;">Here's an <b>ink & pastel illustration </b>I created 18 years ago depicting a lively <b>NYC nightclub scene</b>... </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't remember who the client was, or even if it was an advertising or editorial assignment, but it's one of my favorites. I have it framed and on display in my studio. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was made simply by drawing the line art of the characters with an ink nib pen, then rubbing pastel colors into the paper with my fingers. If I were to create this same type illustration <i>today </i>I would</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> still draw the characters with and ink pen on paper, but instead of rubbing the pastel into the ink drawing, I would rub the pastel onto a <i>separate </i>piece of paper, then scan the ink drawing and the pastel piece into Photoshop in separate layers. This would give me more flexibility in merging the ink line drawing with the pastel color background in terms of additionally manipulating the colors digitally as well as jockeying the positions of both elements. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Like the "Abe" portrait the Frederick Douglass drawing was creating with crayon, ink, gouache, then scanned into Photoshop where I painted in digital color. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Steven Salernohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04901327528387456852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545152542061657254.post-26030825765897478802015-10-28T14:37:00.000-04:002015-10-28T14:37:35.322-04:00Abe -my drawing portrait of Abraham Lincoln.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Posted here is my simple, no frills drawing of <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">President Abraham Lincoln</i>… <span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Honest Abe</span> -with his humble birth-place log cabin home seen in the background. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I always have a ton of material, books, etc… all making a mess of my drawing table, such that I have to always push stuff out of the way to make space on the surface to actually make my art. This morning I just happened to have an old 1958 encyclopedia with all the important information on things starting with the letter “L” -so I flipped it open and was thumbing through and came to a striking photograph of President Abraham Lincoln.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #783f04;">I picked up a piece of paper, and with an orange crayon roughed in the sketch of Abe using the photo as my reference… and obviously I exaggerated Abe’s leanness. This took about ten minutes. Then I used a brown ink “pen-brush” to further delineate his face, followed by darkening some lines and areas with a black pen-brush, this process taking about another ½ hour. I scanned the drawing into Photoshop where in stacked layers I painted the color digitally. (the lettering of “Abe” was also done digitally) Maybe another half hour in all. Done.</span><span style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Normally I do not work that quickly unless I am just sketching of doodling… but in this case case I simply wanted to breeze through doing this portrait in a short period of time and move on with my day… I came out nicely.</span></div>
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Steven Salernohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04901327528387456852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545152542061657254.post-37913657185884067552015-10-23T16:11:00.002-04:002015-10-23T16:12:54.111-04:00current picture book project: Goldenlocks and the Three Pirates<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It seems I alway have one foot in the current year (2015), and the other foot in some other era depending on whatever picture book I am working on! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For example in 2012 - 2013 I was working on the intense illustrations for the picture book, <i><b>The Fantastic Ferris Wheel </b></i>(written by <b>Betsy Harvey Kraft</b> -release date October 2015 by <b>Christy Ottaviano Books</b>) -the true life story about American engineer George Ferris, creator of the first giant observation wheel built for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and nicknamed, of course, <b>the Ferris Wheel</b>! I was immersed in the iron and steel, steam powered world of 1890's America... the fashions, architecture, and design of everyday objects like telephones, automobiles, phonographs, horse-drawn wagons, steam trains, etc... <a href="http://stevensalerno.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-fantastic-ferris-wheel-my-upcoming.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #783f04;">See my earlier post on the making of the illustrations for <i>The Fantastic Ferris Wheel</i></span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then in 2014 and straddling into 2015, I was working on the illustrations for the upcoming picture book, <i><b>The Kid from Diamond Street</b> </i>(written by <b>Audrey Vernick</b> -release date spring 2016 by <b>Houghton Mifflin Harcourt</b>) which is the true life story about a girl from Philadelphia name <b>Edith Houghton</b> who at age ten (in 1922) became a professional baseball player! -and at age 13 (in 1925) played for an all-female American baseball team that toured Japan competing against their male teams. Later in her adult life Edith Houghton became the first female scout for Major League Baseball! So while working on the illustrations for that book my mind is filled with the fashions and automobiles of the roaring '20's decade. <a href="http://stevensalerno.blogspot.com/2015/06/for-past-8-months-i-was-working-on.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #783f04;">See my earlier post sneak peek at the cover of <i>The Kid From Diamond Street</i></span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, suddenly, I am working on my next picture book project, <b style="font-style: italic;">Goldenlocks and the Three Pirates </b>(written by <b>April Jones Prince</b> -release date 2017 by <b>Farrar, Straus & Giroux</b>) the whimsical retelling of the classic story of <i>Goldilocks and the Three Bears... </i>but this time with a fun pirate spin. So of course all during the preliminary sketch stage process my mind is filled with period sailing ships, cannons, swords, treasure chests, skull & crossbones, peg legs, and all the pirate era accessories... in an effort to bring my illustrative flavor to this tale. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Posted here are a handful of the <b>preliminary sketches </b>and <b>character studies</b>. I just this week sent off all the final sketches to the editor on this book at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Margaret Ferguson. So once the back and forth fine tuning of the sketches is concluded, hopefully in the beginning of November I'll be commencing with the final illustrations. Once the entire illustration process is fully concluded, and submitted a more detailed posting on the sketches and final art images.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">preliminary sketch:</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Goldenlocks is lured to the pirate's sloop</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">preliminary sketch:</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> the three pirates searching ship for the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">intruder</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">character study:</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> developing Papa and Baby pirate</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And in-between all the above picture book projects, I also illustrated my very own story <i style="font-weight: bold;">WILD CHILD </i>...which was released by<b> Abrams Books for Young Readers</b> in August of 2015.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's the fun romp about the scariest animal of them all in the jungle -and how all the other animals do their best to try and tame it, otherwise there will never be any peace and quiet in the jungle ever again. To date I have illustrated 24 picture books, and <b><i>Wild Child </i></b>is the fourth book as both the author & illustrator. Here's the cover!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>WILD CHILD</i></b> -written & illustrated by <b>Steven Salerno</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visit my web site </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://stevensalerno.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #783f04;">stevensalerno.com</span></a> </b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to view samples of my illustration work for advertising and editorial, as well as my many picture books for kids.</span>Steven Salernohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04901327528387456852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545152542061657254.post-46791323755143789082015-08-14T13:20:00.001-04:002015-08-14T13:35:56.949-04:00-latest illustration for The New York Times.... "City Sounds"<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Posted here is a detail from my recent illustration for the <b>The New York Times</b> (art director: Carol Dietz) which will appear on the cover of the <b>Real Estate section</b> this Sunday, August 16th, 2015.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #783f04;">The article is from the point of view of apartment living in the city, and all the sounds in the air, from the lovely to the annoying -depending on the listener. My illustration depicts an apartment building with different sounds emanating from each of the windows.... the detail view shown here is of a rocker playing his guitar. (It was created with charcoal pencil, gouache, and digital color.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been creating illustrations for the NY Times since 1980, just out of design school! As usual, it's always a bit of pressure to meet their tight deadlines....you just have to jump into it, fly by the seat of your pants and make all the visual decisions quickly, and hope for the best.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visit <b><a href="http://stevensalerno.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #783f04;">stevensalerno.com</span></a></b> to view all my various illustration portfolio sections and picture books for kids.</span></div>
Steven Salernohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04901327528387456852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545152542061657254.post-53370874115322730182015-07-15T17:55:00.001-04:002015-07-15T17:55:17.759-04:00Project: goat cheese packaging label/ "billy"<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 20px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Throughout my illustration career I have created many food and beverage illustrations and graphics for clients…. such as <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Williams Sonoma</i>, <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">McDonalds</i>, <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">El Paso Chili Company</i>, <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Carrabas Italian Grill</i>, etc… plus for many food related magazine articles and cookbooks as well.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">(visit </span><span style="color: #783f04;"><b><a href="http://stevensalerno.com/" target="_blank">stevensalerno.com</a></b> </span><span style="color: #444444;">and click on the </span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘just food’</span><span style="color: #444444;"> portfolio)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently I was asked to create some preliminary drawings of a goat character for a</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">goat cheese label project</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Unfortunately I ended up</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">not</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">getting the assignment from the agency (you know how that goes, you win some you lose some) but posted here is a prototype label graphic, incorporating one of my simple goat drawings. The simple drawing was created digitally: white line on a black textured background.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visit</span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.stevensalerno.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #783f04;"> stevensalerno.com</span></a></b><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">t</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o view my various illustration portfolios, for advertising, editorial, food, picture books, etc…</span></div>
Steven Salernohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04901327528387456852noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545152542061657254.post-84438675400341275812015-07-10T17:52:00.001-04:002015-07-10T17:52:42.223-04:00ARRRRRGGHHHH! Pirate themed picture book is next...<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am beginning preliminary sketch work for <b>a new picture book project</b> for publisher <i>Farrar Straus & Giroux</i>. It's written by <b>April Jones Prince</b>, and is a fun pirate-themed twist to a classic children's story... I am not going to mention the book's title quite yet, as it's not slated for publication until 2017.... best to keep it under wraps at the moment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">My normal process in creating the illustrations for a story, of course after already having read the manuscript a million times and after making visual shorthand notations on ideas for scenes... is to then create <b>preliminary sketch studies</b> <b>of the characters</b> within the story. Once all these studies are completed I then create <b>a rough storyboard</b> of the entire book, working out the scenes, compositions, balance and flow of the spread scenes, full page scenes, and vignetted images, plus the relationship of the text and image placement, etc...</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once the storyboard is completed (which by the way is <i>not</i> shown to anyone) I then proceed to making all <b>the full-sized final sketches</b> based on the storyboard, making adjustments and improvements along the way. It is these final sketches which are then formally presented to the editor, art director, and design director at the publishing house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the sketches were created with crayon, gouache, and with added digital color. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway... I am at the very start of the whole process, and what you see posted here are early sketch studies. So, the characters I have created thus far could certainly change and evolve further during the storyboard and sketch stages.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In 2015, I have two new picture books being released:</span> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WILD CHILD </span></i>(written & illustrated by <span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Steven Salerno</span> -August 2015, Abrams Books for Young Readers) It’s a story about a new kind of <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wild creature</i> that dominates the jungle, and how all the other animals try and tame it to restore peace and quiet. But nothing they try works. The wild creature just gets<i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wilder</i>… until the clever Gorilla finally figures out a way.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Fantastic Ferris Wheel</i></span> (written by Betsy Harvey Kraft, illustrated by<span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Steven Salerno</span> -October 2015, Christy Ottaviano Books) It’s the true life account of American engineer George Washington Ferris, inventor of the giant observation wheel built for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, and dubbed the “Ferris Wheel”. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visit my illustration web site <span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://stevensalerno.com/" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #783f04;">stevensalerno.com</span></a></span><span style="color: #783f04;"> </span>to see the many picture books I have illustrated, as well as to view my portfolios for advertising and editorial projects…</span>Steven Salernohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04901327528387456852noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545152542061657254.post-58216965810993027852015-06-09T15:21:00.000-04:002015-06-09T15:21:35.677-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For the past 8 months I was working on another picture book illustration project… this one titled, <span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Kid from Diamond Street</i></span>. It’s my 22nd picture book thus far in my career… and the second time illustrating a story by author <span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Audrey Vernick</span>. (our first collaboration together was on her previous baseball themed picture book, <span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Brothers at Bat </span>-which was named a <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Times Book Review Notable Picture Book (2012), </i>and also won the prestigious<i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">California Young Reader Medal in Picture Books (2015).</i></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;">Posted here is a sneak peek (cropped view) of the cover. This picture book will be released in 2016 by <b>Clarion Books</b>/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.</span></div>
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<i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Kid from Diamond Street</span> </i>is the true story of remarkable Philadelphia girl <b>Edith Houghton</b>… who became a professional baseball player at age ten, playing for the<i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Philadelphia Bobbies</i>, and at age thirteen (in 1925) Edith was star player on an all-female USA team that toured Japan and competed against that country’s college-level male baseball teams. As an adult Edith went on to become the first female scout in all of Major League baseball.</div>
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The period illustrations I created for this picture book capture the essence of this talented and spirited young woman, as well as the look and feel of the 1920′s era… Flapper fashions, automobiles, ocean liners, etc… It is a lovely picture book, a compelling true story that girls, boys and adults will all enjoy.</div>
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<a href="http://stevensalerno.tumblr.com/post/108267968555/my-latest-picture-book-project-the-kid-from" target="_blank"><span style="color: #783f04;">See an earlier post about this picture book.</span></a></div>
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Look for <span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Kid from Diamond Street </span>in spring 2016!</div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Visit my illustration web site </span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://stevensalerno.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #783f04;">stevensalerno.com</span></a></span><span style="color: #783f04;"> </span><span style="color: #444444;">to see the many picture books I have illustrated, as well as to view my portfolios for advertising and editorial projects…</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In 2015, I have two other picture books being released:</span> </div>
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<i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WILD CHILD </span></i>(written & illustrated by <span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Steven Salerno</span> -August 2015, Abrams Books for Young Readers) It’s a story about a new kind of <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wild creature</i> that dominates the jungle, and how all the other animals try and tame it to restore peace and quiet. But nothing they try works. The wild creature just gets<i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wilder</i>… until the clever Gorilla finally figures out a way.</div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Fantastic Ferris Wheel</i></span> (written by Betsy Harvey Kraft, illustrated by<span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Steven Salerno</span> -October 2015, Christy Ottaviano Books) It’s the true life account of American engineer George Washington Ferris, inventor of the giant observation wheel built for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, and dubbed the “Ferris Wheel”. </div>
Steven Salernohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04901327528387456852noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545152542061657254.post-9380763498892631572015-05-27T18:48:00.001-04:002015-10-07T12:26:34.593-04:00Wild Child -first review from Publishers Weekly<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #783f04;">written & illustrated by<b> Steven Salerno</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #783f04;">Abrams Books for Young Readers, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4197-1662-1</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><i>release date: Aug. 4, 2015/ available now online at Barnes & Noble, and Amazon</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">“The jungle can be a scary place,” begins Salerno, and his battle royale of an opening scene proves it, as an elephant and rhino point sharp tusks at each other, a gorilla swats at a vulture, snakes and leopards hiss, and a lion and crocodile leap into the fray. But the arrival of a “wild child” who is “Constantly grabbing, pinching, and pooping!” and “Forever pulling, kicking, and crying!” has these kings and queens of the jungle desperate to soothe the ill-tempered babe. Working in mixed-media, Salerno uses slashes of black crayon to outline his characters—it’s perhaps the perfect medium for conveying unadulterated rage, either human or animal. With fierce frowning eyebrows, a scribble of hair, and not a stitch of clothing, the wild child looks like a feral cousin to the star of Salerno’s </span><em style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">Harry Hungry!</em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">; the animals’ attempts to sooth the child with bugs (the anteater) or roaring (the lion) only fuel its anger. Forceful writing and the improbable gracefulness Salerno bestows on this kicking, biting, punching machine make this a furiously fun read. </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">Ages 4–8. </span><em style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">(Abrams Books, Aug. 2015)</em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #333333;">Visit </span><b><a href="http://stevensalerno.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #783f04;">stevensalerno.com</span></a></b><b><span style="color: #783f04;"> </span></b><span style="color: #333333;">to view my illustration portfolios, as well as my many picture books for children.</span></span>Steven Salernohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04901327528387456852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545152542061657254.post-81681181652718904742015-05-22T20:12:00.001-04:002015-10-07T12:25:07.469-04:00WILD CHILD ...my next picture book!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In August 2015 <i>Abrams Books</i> will release my latest picture book, <b>WILD CHILD </b>-my 22 illustrated picture book for kids, the 4th as both author & illustrator. (My first book with Abrams Books, and working with the wonderful editor <b>Tamar Brazis</b>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Posted here is the <b>final cover</b>... a sneak peak!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's the story of a new kind of creature suddenly appearing in the jungle and terrifying all the other animals with its annoying, relentless, bad behavior. Out of desperation to restore peace back to their jungle each of the animals try to tame this wild new creature, but without results. It just becomes wilder! Then the Gorilla <i>finally</i> figures out a way to tame it, at least for a little while...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The picture book will be officially released in August, but will probably become available on-line at Barnes & Noble and Amazon even earlier...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometime soon I will post more samples from the book including sketches, how I created the illustrations, etc...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visit <b><a href="http://stevensalerno.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #783f04;">stevensalerno.com</span></a></b> to view my illustration portfolios and all my picture books for kids. </span></div>
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