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Mr. Telescope is the title of a children's book that I have started a year ago, as a summer project. You can read a bit about the start of it right here. Unfortunately due to my university work and a higher stress pressure that I felt during the final year of my course, I wasn't willing to go back to this project. Well, I went back to this idea and I am in the process of completing the initial spreads. The next phase will be to have these reviewed and accepted. Mr. Telescope is a story about a man with one telescopic eye. He lives in Warsaw, Poland. The story follows his journey through the city, while he searches for his cat, Filka. Here are some sneak peaks into the illustrations.

The past few weeks have been rather hectic, with cleaning, room changes and small projects on the side. In the previous post I have mentioned that I am working on a book. It is a book for children, ideally for 8-10 year olds. The book tells a story about Mr. Telescope who is searching throughout the city of Warsaw for his lost cat, Filka. Right now, the story is finished and went through most of the corrections, therefore I have decided that I am going to start the work on planning the pages and creating a simple dummy book for it. Here are some sneak peaks into it:     Start of the planning Close up into few pages All done The front cover That's it for the update. What do you think?

Alain Gree  The French illustrator and author   Alain Grée  was born on July, 21st 1936 in Eaubonne near Paris.  He is the author of three detective novels (“La Chouette” editions) and produced children’s broadcasts on the French national television for two years.  He studied in Paris at the “Ecole des Arts Appliqués” (atelier d’Art Graphique) and at the “Beaux Arts de Paris”.  Gree has published over 300 books for several editors (Casterman, Hachette, etc.), most in the 1960s and 1970s. His books were translated around the world into 25 different languages.  He also worked as an illustrator for “Pomme d’Api” and “Journal de Babar” magazines. Later he created 10 books as initiation works to ship navigation for Gallimard editions. He was also a journalist for the “Voiles et Voiliers” (sailing ships) magazine for 20 years and is currently working as a graphic designer and editor of advertising publications. Alain Grée recently remas...

This week I am back to working in the uni studio. Great help, since I do not have the software I need at home. I have focused on bringing together my pieces of collage and building up the spreads. Here are some sneak up images: I have added a different audience piece to a theater collage than I have initially planned on but it looked a little bit too basic. I've also asked around for some feedback on my work and there are some little changes and tweaks that I will need to do next week. Mostly it is to do with shadow and re-positioning few parts of the images. There are only two more weeks until the final deadline and so much work to do.  We have held portfolio reviews today, where I've received a little bit of advice to rearrange and take out some of the works from my portfolio as they didn't show my abilities and the quality of my works. Eh. Sometimes it feels like too much stress, but in the end the effort is definitely worth it.

The  past week and a half have been a great time off. I was finally able to distress myself and enjoy reading again. :)  I don't usually use my half term breaks to rest, as there is always something to do, but I think I needed it so much, particularly since my last break in February, there was a lot of work to do in a short amount of time. While I find working under pressure a necessity and a motivational atmosphere, it is also nervewracking. Everyone needs some time off.  I have spent the last week on catching up with my reading lists and watching some of the series that I have been missing out on.  However, during this week I have decided to get back into my work mode and use my time off in an efficient way to get ahead, especially with the next three weeks being the last ones of my second year, therefore I need to get ahead and make sure that I am ready to finish the project as I want to. Here are some sneak peaks into what I have been working on. I find ...