KatGirl Studio in Artist Alley KatGirl Studio will be at Fanime again this year! You can find us in the Artist Alley at tables 80 & 81. We’ll have our usual assortment of artwork, matted prints and shirts. We will also be giving away a free comic and Daemons in the Mist promo bookmark, while supplies last. Aside from all the goodies we will have available, I...
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We started production on the Daemons in the Mist Visual Novel this past week. The novel engine was designed by the fantastic team at CWS Software and with their help I will be creating the vast majority of the Visual Novel myself. Yes you heard that right, I will be the writer, artist and coder for the visual novel version of Daemons in the Mist. This means I had to...
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Here is a re-post of the interview I did for LM Preston’s blog Tell us about your upcoming book? Some of your other projects? I actually have three upcoming books if you can believe it. Two picture books and my debut novel Daemons in the Mist. Daemons in the Mist is a Young Adult urban-fantasy paranormal romance novel set in modern day San Francisco. Here’s a...
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Art Eating Bindings Don’t forget you illustration’s end result will be a bound book and thus some of the image in the center of the spread where the binding is is going to get lost. If an item goes into the binding it should also come out the other side. It’s more than a little unnerving to readers when the page seems to swallow things. So it’s a...
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Don’t Forget the Text Though I can’t show you the text I can show you were it is going to go. One of the tricks in illustrating a picture book is the leave space for the text without leaving a gaping whole in your illustration. When I plan out an story illustration I always have a layer with the text on it in the size the publisher has said it will be. This...
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For the benefit of our viewers some words will now have roll over explanations. We have italicized them as well so you know which ones. Efficient Design As I mentioned before due to the nature of this book the characters, foreground and backgrounds are drawn on separate layers like in a animated cartoon. In my working process I draw the environments out fully with...
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Kickstart Our Launch Hi viewers we just launched our first project on Kickstarter! It’s my debut novel that I wrote for NaNoWriMo this year. Daemons in the Mist a Young Adult urban-fantasy paranormal romance novel set in modern day San Francisco. I am currently finishing up the novel to be edited for publication and it will be our first release at Korat...
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Saturday Morning Picture Books? In our modern day of book apps and trailers, the line between picture book illustration and animation is becoming more and more blurred. Because Lazy Saturday Afternoon is going to be made into both these things I have to approach the illustrations in a different way. Similar in fact to how an animated cartoon is done. For example, even in...
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Late last year I was contracted by Flinders Press to illustrate a picture book. The picture book, Lazy Saturday Afternoon, is a story in song by Author Songwriter Bryant Oden, creator of the extremely popular Duck Song and is slated to hit shelves Fall 2011. As a special treat to KatGirl Studio fans, Flinders Press has graciously agreed to let me share some of the process...
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This is in response to this article. Stand strong Katie and hold you Star Wars water bottle high, you are among light saber wielding sisters. Me holding my light saber I made at Disneyland. One of the voice actors from the Clone Wars movie had just signed it for me. Why yes I am wearing a Hogwarts uniform and standing next to...
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November 15-19 is Anti-Bullying Week and so alot of articles are going around the twitterverse. One particular article really hit me in the heart and so like many others I have decided to speak out. In the 7th grade I got beat up, bullied and picked on by 8th grade girls nearly everyday. I know other students saw it but they did nothing. I can’t really blame them,...
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Reworking the Old into Something New From the Studio #5 Sometimes you create and image and love it then come back years later and wounder why you did. Other times you abandon it part way through because something just doesn’t look right or you just plain hate it. You then come back and decide it wasn’t that bad and finish it up or turn it into something...
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