Witches & Wizards of Oz: the Good Witch of the North, one of the Wizard of Oz’ incarnations, the Wicked Witch of the West, and Glinda the Good Witch of the South.
Kickstarter for the illustrated edition is moving right along! We’ll probably make goal in the next day or two? Thank you everyone so much!
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#oz #dorothy gale #wicked witch #the wizard of oz #the wonderful wizard of ozThe Kickstarter for my illustrated edition of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz is live! If you’d like to support this project, and/or get a copy of the hardcover book of your very own, I hope you’ll check it out!
I’ve made 24 full-page illustrations and around 70 spot illustrations to go throughout the complete original text, in a 192-page book. Most of them have been posted on this tumblr. I’ve tried to support the text without distracting from it, and I’ve emphasized the sense of being lost in a strange, colorful place. I’m really happy with how it’s turned out so far, and having it as a nice printed book has always been an exciting possibility!! It is looking like a thing that will probably happen, thanks to Make That Thing and YOU YOU YOU
Thank you!
- Evan
Just launched the Kickstarter for the print edition of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, with the full original text and 88 of my illustrations!!! More on that later.
Here’s the last chunk of chapter illustrations, covering the journey south from the Emerald City (the first part is here, the second part is here). There’s some bits in this last part of the book that are among the weirdest, and most unfamiliar to people because it was mostly discarded for the movie adaptation. The China Country is one I was very excited/daunted to draw; it’s very unexpected!
Oh and I put up a grid of all of the chapter illustrations together but I made it for the Kickstarter and I thought it was fun to look at
The Kickstarter for the book has LAUNCHED!
Here’s a recap of the chapter illustrations for chapters 1 through 8 of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the first third of the book! I am very happy with these, and the wide range of color schemes and tones they represent.
I will be done with this project fairly soon, after working on it (off and on) for over a year. 24 full-page illustrations like these, and somewhere around 70 spot illustrations. A print book is being thought of; details will be on this blog before they’ll be anywhere else!
My name is Evan Dahm and I would like to illustrate and publish an edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It was published in 1900 and is now in the public domain. I like it a lot and I think I can illustrate it in a way that works with the story and has a visual character that’s distinct from other interpretations.
Here are some early drawings trying to figure out shapes and colors for the characters.
More art intermittently
Now the Wicked Witch of the West had but one eye, yet that was as powerful as a telescope, and could see everywhere. So, as she sat in the door of her castle, she happened to look around and saw Dorothy lying asleep, with her friends all about her.
Finally we get to some dramatically different Oz vistas! As usual there’s not a ton to go on as far as specific descriptions in the text, but I tried to develop an architectural style that’s distinct and works with the designs for the Witch and the Winkies, and stick to the yellow color-scheme Winkie-land is given.
Pretty happy with this one. One more chapter opener takes place in Winkie-land, and then we’re off.
All previous chapter illustrations here.
Just trying to figure out how the Wicked Witch will look. There isn’t terribly much to go on in the text… she has one powerful eye, and she carries around an umbrella. Aside from that, I’ve tried to make her totally separate from the only other visual interpretation of the character I’ve ever seen, and I’ve tried to design her minions and the look of the territory she’s taken over to match her… Black/gray and yellow and lots of points. What do you think?
She also only appears in person in one (very long) chapter, and right in the middle of the book… So it’ll be a chapter with a lot more illustrations than most.
Dorothy and Oz.
I’ve tweaked Dorothy’s post-Winkie costume a little, and haven’t updated all of the art on this blog yet to reflect it. She gets a gold belt, to match all of the other gifts given to the party by the Winkies, and to have her dress match the shape of the blue dress she was wearing at the start. The belt is not in the text– she’s given a bracelet instead, but that’s too small to be legible as I’m drawing, and the belt makes more visual sense! I constantly get the sense that I’m paying way more meticulous attention to details like this than Baum ever did; there’s a looseness and a discontinuity sometimes in how he deals with the stuff.
Maybe the dress should appear green here, actually, because she’s in the City. Ok.
The revelation of the real Wizard of Oz, and his rewards for the Woodman, the Scarecrow, and the Lion. These are from chapter 16; I skipped ahead a bit.
The THIRD book of my webcomic series Vattu is finally available in print, with Topatoco. Really happy with how it turned out!!!
I’m mere days from finishing work on Island Book 2, and then will get back to updating Vattu online– now into its FINAL BOOK, and things are really starting to come together. Hope you can follow along!!! thank y’all
