Wordsworth and the Dragon Update

The LAST illustration... More adventures soon? Of course the book ends with a game night!

All the art is done, the book is funded and now Scotti Cohn and I are at the CreateSpace "trial of fire" portion of our journey.

We will have an update once soon on when the book will be available.

The King's Guard... Maybe we will see them again?

Final cover design...

Wordsworth and the Dragon Funded!

We have SURPASSED our goal to fund Wordsworth and the Dragon with 8 days to spare! THANKS EVERYONE FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

On to the next phase! We will keep you posted as soon as the book is available.

If you still want to support our book, you can contribute until the clock runs out: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wordsworth-and-the-dragon

Wordsworth and the Dragon Indiegogo Campaign

We are SO CLOSE to making our Indiegogo goal for our book!! In honor of our halfway point, I did this teaser video.

We love all of our contributors!

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wordsworth-and-the-dragon?c=home

New Wordsworth and the Dragon Illustrations!

Chapter 5:Dash just had his hand bitten...

Scotti Cohn and I are finally getting ready to bring Wordsworth and the Dragon to the printer.

We are going to Indiegogo to raise funds for our book. So, if you have been interested in getting a copy when it is finished, place your order here.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wordsworth-and-the-dragon/x/3207555

It has been great fun working with Scotti on this. I love getting to do some ink drawings; it seems like they are rarely done anymore.

Anyway, we would LOVE your support and spread the word!

Chapter 4

Wordsworth and the Dragon Chapter Illustrations

Chapter 7 Full Page Illustration

I have had so much fun working on these black and white illustrations for Wordsworth and the Dragon! In a time when so much is over-rendered, the simple ink drawing is refreshing!

Chapter 1 Illustration... A letter is missing...

Cover: Wordsworth and the Dragon

© 2012 Scotti Cohn and art by Christina Wald

After working bit by bit through a minefield of deadlines, the cover for Wordsworth and the Dragon. Stay tuned as we put together the final layout and illustrations for Scotti's wonderful book!

Cover Design-a-palooza: Time to Vote!

This is concept 6!

Here is the whole set:

Vote and comment here:


http://wordsworthdragon.blogspot.com/p/cover-art.html

More Wordsworth and the Dragon: Cover Design-a-palooza Week 5

Featuring the redesigned cavabok! The whole lot: http://wordsworthdragon.blogspot.com/p/cover-art.html

Books By the Banks Pictures, 2011

Reception the Night Before with Jared Lee, Jerry Dowling, Me and Jeffery Ebbeler

Carole Gerber and Me with AJC

Scotti Cohn and Me... This is for the Wordsworth Blog

All of us!

I wish I had gotten more photos. It was a great day.

More Wordsworth and the Dragon Sketches

I just finished a couple ideas: 

First off, the castle. I went a little crazy on this concept probably because I love castles so much and I have been reading my guidebooks for a trip to Greece I am about to take (the DK versions with all the lovely architecture illustrations with cutaways). The tower in the center is where the alphabet is heavily guarded. I also added a hedge maze, aviary, orchard... I am working on a map too.

  




























The throne room. I am integrating a lot of letters in the design. This scene is from the first chapter with Rho, the King and Sir Clooney. 

Read some chapters here: http://wordsworthdragon.blogspot.com/p/chapter-1.html


You can read up to the third chapter.

More Wordsworth and the Dragon

 

We added a new banner and look to the Wordsworth and the Dragon blog.

Also, First look at Princess Rho

Princess Rho is described as dressing plainly without the traditional "princess" trappings. She has a long braid, but this sketch does not show it.

New Blog! Wordsworth the Dragon

I have started doing some sketching on this wonderful book Scotti Cohn has written called Wordsworth and the Dragon.

Here is a link to read the first chapter: http://wordsworthdragon.blogspot.com/p/chapter-1.html

My favorite non-human character is the Dragon Dash. He actually has a dash of the dragon from Grendel.

As far as humans, here is my first sketch of the main character Wordsworth on his Cavabok. I have painted Springboks before (and spronking Springboks), bit this was more pony-like. I wanted him to be more solid like a pony than the slender gazelle look. This could be the new unicorn! Looking at my most recent sketch, I may add some gazelle markings to add a little wildness.

Finally, a view of the hero... More soon! The blog: http://wordsworthdragon.blogspot.com/

The Process of Illustrating a Children's Book

Scotti Cohn is doing a cool web series about creating picture books. She just put up a segment about my process.

Check it out!