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!
Dorothy tries to figure out what to do.
Dorothy learns how to summon the monkeys.
Happy weekend, here is a little preview of an upcoming chapter illustration.
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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.
She was surprised, as she walked along, to see how pretty the country was about her. There were neat fences at the sides of the road, painted a dainty blue color, and beyond them were fields of grain and vegetables in abundance. Evidently the Munchkins were good farmers and able to raise large crops.
Opening page for Chapter 3! This took a long time. Munchkins are all about the color blue and their buildings all have domes. In the back of my head I’m working out how to construct all of the different settings to look distinct, because there isn’t much textual description to go on. The text first gives the impression of Munchkinland being bright and charming and rural, so that is my priority for these first few pictures.
The chapter 4 illo is inked and I should be able to get it up in about a week. My goal is to get one of these done every week, so the whole book will be done inside half a year.
A little way off was a small brook, rushing and sparkling along between
green banks, and murmuring in a voice very grateful to a little girl
who had lived so long on the dry, gray prairies.
Opening pages for chapters 1 and 2. The plan is to have images like this for every chapter.
Progress again at last. This is the beginnings of the full-page image that will open chapter 2.