Horses! And ponies!

[astridv]

This morning I got my illustrator's copy for last year's "Horses and Ponies" book, formerly known as the Project of Doom. The Doom part was because I'd calculated the project for two months when it took three, at seven days a week. Fun times.

























Just preliminary pics. I have to wait with the proper photos for my gallery until the sun decides to peek out from behind the clouds. It has to happen eventually, right? Sigh.

Screw the weather, I'm going to the sauna today. The plan was to go buildering but looking at the weather radar I don't know if that's gonna happen.
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Speaking of, rydra_wong just posted a video with some first-class buildering.

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And in case you missed yesterday's Writer's Block question on the LJ homepage:
LJ Writers Block question:
What is your favorite foreign film? Do you think there should be an American remake?

That's so adorable. I wanted to answer that my favorite foreign film is Groundhog Day. :P
But I couldn't decide because I also love The Nightmare Before Christmas, and oh, so many others, I just can't pick just one.

Comments

[ratcreature]

Wow, that's a lot of horses you had to draw!

And I guess with LJ belonging to SUP now, only Russian and Soviet films wouldn't be eligible for that question, no?

[astridv]

Wow, that's a lot of horses you had to draw!

Yep. And that's only half the pages. Plus, somehow, last year almost every other job involved horses as well. Now I LOVE drawing horses, one of my favorite topics... but still, that book I just finished that was about not!horses? I quite welcomed the change. ;)

[ratcreature]

I never had a horse infatuated phase. My best friend from when I was ten to fifteen however had her own pony, and much of her free time was arranged around that horse, which also took some extra effort, what with us being in the middle of the city, and the horse way out in some rural suburb. So mostly I was somewhat jealous of that animal, because she doing horse stuff all the time...

[astridv]

That sounds very familiar (I have friends who ride horses).

I heard of a case where the boyfriend made an ultimatum: "The horse or me." Three guesses how it ended. ;)

[sasha_feather]

Wow, that is a beautiful book! Just the sort I'd love to own, to pore over each individual horse and lift up all the flaps. How gorgeous.

[astridv]

Hee, thanks. :)

[talitha78]

Wow, I'm so impressed with your work!

[astridv]

*blushes* Thank you!

[spasticat]

Such cool illustrations!!! Thanks for sharing.

[astridv]

Thanks :)

[less_star]

Looks great! I can see it took a lot of work, getting the pictures to fit behind the fold-ups. I think you're really good at drawing kids who look like kids and not small grown-ups.

[astridv]

A side-effect of mostly drawing kids: I have to be more careful that my grown-ups don't look like oversized kids.

I can see it took a lot of work, getting the pictures to fit behind the fold-ups.

Yeah, that was part of what made it so time-consuming. And there are just so many detail on each page to begin with, I didn't see that coming when I was told the page count.

[springwoof]

gorgeous book! I would buy it, just for the pretty. Do you have a link where we could buy it online?

[astridv]

I'm happy you like it! It actually looks like it's not out yet, I usually get my copies in advance. I'm kind of surpised it's not even listed on amazon yet - then again, I've never worked with that publisher before, no idea how they do things. I can let you know when it'll become available. But if you're in America, it might be relatively expense because of the postage.

[astridv]

Yo, in case you're still interested in the pony book, it's *finally* availabe online, on amazon.com even: http://www.amazon.com/Richtig-schlau-Pferde-Carola-Kessel/dp/3862339777/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327238760&sr=8-1 (and of course amazon.de)

[springwoof]

Yay! \o/