Comments on: color my bobble-head imagination

By: Mister Jau

Mister Jau — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:00:06 +0000

Hello! I’m Jaume, from Barcelona, Spain. I draw some comic books and other things. I like very much your work. I just write to tell you that I’m using a background made by you in my “myspace”. You can see it now and please tell me if you don’t want that I use it because I will erase it right now. Please. :-)
Thank you very much.

Jau.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:48:05 +0000

i lovee these!!!

By: Alina Chau

Alina Chau — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 04:00:02 +0000

These are beautifully designed!! Wonderful!!

By: ming

ming — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:05:59 +0000

i like how you express yourself so diffrently in each illustration you do. some illustrators are bound by style..i like the freedom you portray!

By: jimmy

jimmy — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:48:25 +0000

As the owner of a completely shaved head, I must admit that I can’t relate to your dilema. You poor people with hair. I remember years ago freaking out when my hair started to thin. I couldn’t feel more pleased now. Roll the windows down baby cuz my skin head loves fresh air. Umbrella? Nah. I’ll just wipe off when I get in. Bedhead? Not my problem. As William Wallace shouted, “FREEDOM!”. Ooops, I got a little dramatic there. Anyway, I love your backgrounds. Aren’t they a blast to do? I can’t get enough. Also looking forward to the halloween thing.

By: penelope

penelope — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:32:22 +0000

Hi Carlynn!
Each background is about 4×6 inches, so basically what I did was take a large sheet of the paper I work on (a german etching paper called Hahnemuhle paper) and pencil in the dimensions. Then I painted each background with acrylic and kind of went to town… first playing with the color, making sure they all complimented each other and then painting squares on some or stripes or whatever. So I’d get a good mix of patterns and solids. For a few of them, I scanned in a solid background and added pattern in photoshop (another painting that I overlaid on the computer). There are about 85 pages in the book, so I tried to give as much variety as possible… :)

Hope that helps!

By: Carlynn

Carlynn — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:13:11 +0000

I love the backgrounds, they are beautiful. Can I ask a really technical question – how do you do them? Do you paint a sheet and then cut out squares? I am sorry, this is super basic but I love what you did. And I’m delurking to say how much I like your site, how much I like what you say. You sound like a great person and the fact that you are an illustrator …. wow, I am in awe.

By: Swirly

Swirly — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:32:46 +0000

I love the colorful backgrounds and I agree, hair is DUMB. ;)

By: penelope

penelope — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:03:19 +0000

Traditional materials. And then I scanned them to adjust the colors to be a bit brighter… :)

By: Abigail

Abigail — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:14:50 +0000

beautiful background patterns — are they all traditional materials, all digital, or a combo? Luscious colors. Thanks for sharing them!