which I spotted after a bit o’ internet sleuthing in a previous Mark Pett book (& here)–I knew there was something significant about that little red plane!) What shines most to by Cybils picture book finalists, group one | Hope Is the Word Can’t wait for The Girl and the Bicycle 🙂 by Jessica Lawson I love the look of The Boy and the Airplane! Congrats to Mark and thanks for sharing a bit about your process (fabulous political/celebrity sketches!). Thanks again for sharing! by Sarah Romano Diehl I really like these- the subdued backgrounds and bits of color, really like the characters. All images here reproduced with permission of the publisher and Mark Pett.ĥ comments to “Time Flies: A Visit with Mark Pett” I recently finished up a companion book to The Boy and the Airplane that will come out next year with Simon & Schuster. These helped me loosen up and gain confidence, so I could keep the energy and spontaneity that I liked so much in the original sketches. For some reason, I found myself drawing pictures of political figures and celebrities.
I wanted to preserve that when doing the final art, so I spent most of my time doing warm-up drawings. I really liked the looseness of the original dummy pages. You can see it’s very similar to the end product. Here are some sample pages from the dummy pages I sent to Simon & Schuster. I thought I would add more color when I did the final art, but I really liked the earth tones and sepia palette.
In adding frames, I wanted to avoid a “comic book” feel, so that’s when I explored background colors. I found I wanted to tell more of a story and to vary the action. I just used the pages themselves as frames. After writing The Boy and the Airplane in pictures, I discovered it didn’t need words! I would write using pictures first, then add words as necessary. I used to write that way when I was writing/drawing my syndicated daily comic strip, Lucky Cow. It began, as so many ideas do for me, as a series of pictures. Mark: I hadn’t actually intended to make this wordless. (Click either image to see spread in its entirety) Let’s get to it, and I thank him for visiting … This evening, I want to show some spreads from the book, and bonus! Mark is visiting to talk a bit about the book and share some more art, including a sneak-peek at a follow-up to The Boy and the Airplane. If you’re wondering who he is and what he’s doing with that toy airplane, I explained it all last week in my column. That old man is from Pett’s The Boy and the Airplane (Simon & Schuster, April 2013), which I wrote about at Kirkus last week. Here is Mark Pett, who is responsible for one of my favorite picture book spreads thus far this year, this one below, which you simply must click on to enlarge and see in its glory:
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