I made a new landing page, just with a subscribe button, using ConvertKit. ConvertKit is a service that lets you collect e-mail addresses and send newsletters. If you want to subscribe to our newsletter about our cat book you can do it here. ConvertKit is an alternative to Mailchimp, which I had always used before….
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Every image is a sum of its parts
You guys know that my brother and I have been working on our cat book. Each page takes a while. You start with a rough sketch: On top of it you create a cleaner sketch: And then you keep adding details. Some things you can draw from memory. But if you are unsure how something…
[Continue Reading]Garden progress
I’ve been working on the garden area of our cat book and I wanted to show you how it’s progressing. Here is one of the first sketches: I am now adding details and more cats and basically looking for plant references online and drawing them. This is what I have so far: The right side…
[Continue Reading]Our Cat Book: fixing garden composition
My brother and I are making our first book about cats. Today I’ve been working on the garden area. Here is the initial sketch: The problem is that the trees create a kind of frame in the picture, as so: There’s still a lot of space outside those borders made by trees. That’s not a…
[Continue Reading]What happened to the book?
You might have wondered what happened to the book about cats that my brother and I have been working on. We had to put it on hold — other projects got in the way. But now we are finally back to it. Above, you can see the initial sketches of four areas that we are…
[Continue Reading]Attic — a little progress
Sharing a small update to the attic in our cat book 🙂
[Continue Reading]Making a children’s book – some notes
A few weeks ago, my brother and I started working on our first children’s book about cats. This is a good time to write a bit about the process and why we decided on this project. From the start it was a challenge: Both my brother and I are artists, but we make designs for…
[Continue Reading]Our Cat Book: Attic
Working on the attic today. This is just an initial sketch. No cats yet. See also: Kitchen Bedroom Library #1 and #2
[Continue Reading]This is taking forever!
My brother and I are working on our book still. I am adding cats and all the various items to the images. It’s taking forever. I am desperately trying to come up with 100 or so things that can be placed here.
[Continue Reading]Working on our book #4 – Library
All I do all day is work on our cat book 🙂 This is the library. I know it doesn’t look like much yet but it will be amazing.
[Continue Reading]Working on our book #3
This is the bedroom in our cat book 🙂 See also: Working on our book #1 Working on our book #2
[Continue Reading]Working on our book #2
Work on our book continues. It doesn’t look like much yet, but it will be so pretty 🙂 See how it looked before: Working on our book #1
[Continue Reading]Working on our book #1
My brother and I started working on our cat book. It will be a children’s book with lots of cats. Here is a sketch of the first page. It’s a kitchen with a bunch of cats.
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