semillas y huevos

[asakiyume]

I'm making a six-page (counting the cover...) picture book for the kids I met on my trip (they're all siblings and cousins of each other). It's about planting an egg and having a hen hatch an avocado seed. Here's my cover image: two avocado seeds and two eggs :-)

... Hoping you can tell (but would not be surprised if not, heh) that the top two are the avocado seeds and the bottom two are the eggs. I'm biting my tongue to not-say all the things that are wrong with the picture. Mainly I like it even with the problems.

Comments

[sartorias]

I bet the kids will adore it!

[asakiyume]

I sincerely hope so!

[sovay]

I'm biting my tongue to not-say all the things that are wrong with the picture. Mainly I like it even with the problems.

I like it! I want to see the rest of the book.

[asakiyume]

I like it! ** gratified **

So far this is the only picture I've done! But I will share as I do more.

[wayfaringwordhack]

What a delightful idea! Looking forward to hearing more about it. (I could tell which were which)

[asakiyume]

Yay, successsss!

Thanks, I'll post more as I have more :-)

[amaebi]

I really like the concept behind that leedle book!

And also: those kids are getting a book made Just for Them! They'll be in ecstasy.

And I like the look of that first picture. I'm thinking that for you a lot of the "what's wrong" is in that it's not in your usual style?

[asakiyume]

I think it's that I have a sharp eye and skills that aren't at the level of my eye ;-)

I do like to work with color, but it's true that what I share here is often line doodles. They're just so fast! Stuff with color takes longer.

I hope they'll like it and be amused :-) I think at first I'll just send the book page by page as photos (it'll only be six photos), and my friends can share it with their kids via phone. I did manage to get a mailing address from my guides, but I got the sense that mail delivery might be unreliable: they used to get a package a year from a woman in Australia, they said, but last year she reported that it got sent back to her. So who knows what happened there. So I may try mailing physical printouts, but they may not arrive.