The Wizard of Oz is one of the world classics by L. Frank Baum. After the cyclone Dorothy founds herself in a different lands and meets the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Cowardly Lion and the other fantastic characters. The book I illustrated came up recently, published by Kelime Yayinlari.
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One of my latest books I illustrated came up recently, The Truth About Unicorns. It was published by Capstone.
Available via Amazon.
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New books I illustrated came up from Compass Publishing with MP3 CDs:
Doctor Dolittle, the man who can communicate with animals by Hugh Lofting
Grimm Fairy Tales, including Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, bearskin and Rapunzel by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The Wind in the Willow, a crazy Frog and his friends the Rat, Mole and Badger by Kenneth Grahame
Bremen Mizikacilari (The Town Musicians of Bremen) by Grimm Brothers
*Where did my dad go? When I send my sketches of the book cover to my editor, Muren Beykan, she asked me just to color them without changing anything. The story has full of adventure and so it has to be warm, energetic like a comic book illustrations. Publisher: Gunisigi Kitapligi.
I just did a book cover illustration about the Trojan War of Homer. After searching a lot of visual materials, I found a couple of Ancient Greek bust images for inspiration. Probably they were from Hellenistic period that searching beauty reached the highest point. I drew Helen and Paris, the main characters of the story, from profile as Greek painters had done on pottery. They are looking at the ancient city, Troya.
Since Homer’s time, has beauty changed? What is the criteria for beauty? What is the ideal proportion? These were some of the questions I asked myself while I was working on the picture below…
