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Only a week till we receive 1000 copies of the book. So excited for it. On Monday we'll be headed to the printers to record it being printed!

The Proof is in the... proof.

Here we go! the proof is in, so tomorrow we'll look it over before they hit the button to print! 

Despite the messiness of the pages in the pic, the book is looking so good!! Praise the Lord!

Okay now we're finished... almost.

Printing out the proof for the book.

45 Bible stories with over 90 illustrations! Being released May 3rd :)

Love one another

My first post in a long while that isnt to do with work. This is for sunday school class tomorrow, where we are covering the good samaritan story (Luke 10:25-37).
I wanted to show the kids a way they can apply it in their lives.

Finished

After 3 months, the book has come to a close. Im feeling very good about the result. 

I've learned so much, and its been such a great journey. Hope this book leads to many kids learning about the true love of Jesus Christ. 

He is Risen

Too bad this wasnt ready for Sunday. Oh well, its something we should be celebrating 365 days of the year. HE IS RISEN! 

Today is the last day Im working on the book, and we're expecting it to be back from printing sometime in may.. Very excited for this. its 95 illustrations!

The Last Supper

Kind of a shame I didn't finish this last week, but I fell ill and was out of commission for a few days... 

This is the last week I have to work on the book, so things are wrapping up... only a few more drawings left...

Update

Alright, so I stopped updating for alittle while. Doesn't mean I've stopped drawing... well maybe a little bit. I was filming for a week while some clients were down at work so that slowed things down a bit. 

Well to give you an update of where Im at in the book, Im roughly 10 drawings done to completion.

Heres some of today's drawings. Paul and sirus are about escape from jail!  

Carrying the Cross

"And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple."

Easter Pt.1

Very excited about this drawing. 

Retouching

the last few days of work have been interesting. I have improved enough since i started this project that I 've been going back to the earlier drawings to fix them. I find its a little tedious but somewhat satisfying to compare the before with after...

Progress!

If you go back into my older entries you wil notice a difference in style. Man i cant explain how pleased i am to be where i am stylistically.. feel like ihave progressed so dramatically. heres a comparison of peter i drew from last summer, to peter i drew today (one of the right).

...very pumped about this 3rd picture. although its probably difficult to figure out whats happening here  at this point...

Rhoda pt 2

Rhoda

Matthew 14

A preview of the upcoming book, Komm Kjikje. A bible story book for low german speaking kids.

Definitely my favorite illustration so far. even though the water isnt where i want it to be, its still very close. 

David and Goliath!

Done! ...Feel like this could be a movie poster.

Goliath done

This is a drawing thats been kicking around in my head in for the last week... pretty happy to find sometime to put it to paper..

This is obviously the first stage of it... but i expect to be done and posted sometime this weekend :)

Matthew 11:28

Blind man

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him will not die but have everlasting life" John 3:16

Matthew 18

The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant

Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, "Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?

Jesus answered, " I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.

Moses

Sermon on the mount

Komm kjikje: Prodigal Son pt 2. (Luke 15)

A bit more gloomy submission today. In the story of the prodigal son (Luke 15), The youngest son asks this father for his inheritance. That is something that someone would usually get after their parent had passed away, so to ask for this, was very disrespectful. The father relunctantly gave the money to him.

With his new found wealth, the son went to another country and squandered all the money on "wild living". After he was broke, there was a famine and had to find a way to make money. he finds himself a job feeding pigs.

Prodigal Son Pt 1

Today I continued my work on the prodigal son parable(Luke 15). For the first time, I worked on the background exclusively in photoshop. This is probably something that most people do. I can understand why now. It's a lot more like painting... and it may seem odd that Im only now realizing the usefulness of photoshop to this extent, but I've always been an Adobe illustrator type of guy. And I still am... but the thought of using PS to draw stuff bugged me. I wanted to stay in the vector world for everything. You could say that I'm stubborn... and you'd be right. I wish I was more open to new techniques in photoshop earlier... It's not illustrator vs photoshop, its using them as a team. Thats what will create the best result.


In any case, I'm quite pleased with the result, and I look forward to drawing more backgrounds!

Back to the Drawing board

As you can tell its been a while since this blog has been active. Mostly because I havent been active! Unfortunate as that is, things are looking up! I have begun a new position at Family Life Network as their illustrator and my first project is to illustrate the new testament bible story book!

 

Having a full time job illustrating has really been good for me. Obviously maximum time for practice and as a result I have been improving at a quick pace.

Look forward to more frequent updates! Yay!